naked

• adj.裸の、飾り気のない、根拠のない、率直な

PIE *nogw「裸」から。語源はヌード、体育館。

naked

naked: [OE] Naked goes back ultimately to Indo- European *nogw- ‘unclothed’, which also produced Latin nūdus (source of English nude [16]) and Russian nagój ‘naked’. The past participial form derived from this, *nogwedhos, passed into prehistoric Germanic as *naquethaz, which has subsequently differentiated to German nackt, Dutch naakt, Swedish naken, Danish n?gen, and English naked.
=> nude

naked (adj.)

Old English nacod "nude, bare; empty," also "not fully clothed," from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz (cognates: Old Frisian nakad, Middle Dutch naket, Dutch naakt, Old High German nackot, German nackt, Old Norse n?kkvier, Old Swedish nakuter, Gothic naqats "naked"), from PIE root *nogw- "naked" (cognates: Sanskrit nagna, Hittite nekumant-, Old Persian *nagna-, Greek gymnos, Latin nudus, Lithuanian nuogas, Old Church Slavonic nagu-, Russian nagoi, Old Irish nocht, Welsh noeth "bare, naked"). Related: Nakedly; nakedness. Applied to qualities, actions, etc., from late 14c. (first in "The Cloud of Unknowing"); phrase naked truth is from 1585, in Alexander Montgomerie's "The Cherry and the Slae":

Which thou must (though it grieve thee) grant
I trumped never a man.
But truely told the naked trueth,
To men that meld with mee,
For neither rigour, nor for rueth,
But onely loath to lie.
[Montgomerie, 1585]

Phrase naked as a jaybird (1943) was earlier naked as a robin (1879, in a Shropshire context); the earliest known comparative based on it was naked as a needle (late 14c.). Naked eye is from 1660s, unnecessary in the world before telescopes and microscopes.

1. The worms cannot be seen by the naked eye.

これらの虫は肉眼では見えない。

2.The planet Mars will be visible to the naked eye all week.

火星は全周肉眼で観察できる。

3.Her naked body was found wrapped in a sheet in a field.

畑で彼女の死体が発見され、全身裸でシーツに包まれていた。

4.The water was heated by a naked gas flame.

水はガス火で加熱される。

5.The nest contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.

巣の中にはまだ毛が生えておらず、目が開いていない8匹のマウスがいます。