Bare Definition

Origin of Bare

• From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch baar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).

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• Middle English bar from Old English bær bhoso- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Old English barian.

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• Inflected forms.

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