Naked Definition
Simple past tense and past participle of nake.
Origin of Naked
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From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod (“naked"), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷó- (“naked"). Cognate with Scots nakit, nakkit (“naked"), Low German naakd (“naked"), Dutch naakt (“naked"), German nackt (“naked"), Danish nøgen (“naked"), Swedish naken (“naked"), Icelandic nakinn (“naked"), and ultimately with Latin nÅ«dus, Ancient Greek γυμνός (gymnós), Sanskrit नग्न (nagna), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬕𐬥𐬀 (maÄ¡na), Old Armenian Õ´Õ¥Ö€Õ¯ (merk). Related also to Old English nacian (“to strip of clothes, undress"). More at nake.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English nacod nogw- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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See nake (verb)
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