bare

Meanings

Adjective

Adverb

Noun

  • The surface, the (bare) skin.
  • Surface; body; substance.
  • That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

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Origin

  • From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær ("bare, naked, open"), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz ("bare, naked"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos-.
  • Cognate with Scots bare, bair, 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").
  • From Middle English baren, from Old English barian, from Proto-Germanic *bazōną.
  • Inflected forms.

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