different between nakey vs nake

English

Etymology

Diminutive +? -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?ki

Adjective

nakey (comparative more nakey, superlative most nakey)

1. (informal or childish or endearing) naked

Anagrams

• Kanye, Kenya, Yanke

English

Etymology

From Middle English naken (“to nake”), from Old English nacian (“to bare, strip, make naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakw?n? (“to make naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *nog?- (“to make naked”). Cognate with Old Norse n?kkva (“to bare, expose”). More at naked.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Verb

nake (third-person singular simple present nakes, present participle naking, simple past and past participle naked)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) To make naked; to bare.

Synonyms

• expose, reveal; see also Thesaurus:reveal

Anagrams

• Kane, Kean, aken, enka, kaen, kena

Creek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?k?/

Noun

nake (plural nakvke)

1. thing
2. what? (interrogative pronoun)
3. ...that which... (relative pronoun)

Dutch

Verb

nake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of naken

Anagrams

• Aken, aken, kane

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from naked.

Alternative forms

• naken

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?k(?)/

Adjective

nake (rare)

1. naked, exposed, miserly

Descendants

• Yola: naaghen

References

• “n?ke, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

Etymology 2

Verb

nake

1. Alternative form of naken

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nakent

Adjective

nake

1. neuter singular of naken