Edited sentence: " Another theory, while admitting that the origin of the word is unknown supposes it to have come from the Sanskrit and that it was applied to the people because of the paucity of clothing (Naga)." In Assamese, the word Noga means 'naked'.According to S.According to the book Uniqueness of Naga History, the word Naga was derived from the word 'Na' 'Ka' given by the Burmese.As early as CE 150, Claudius Ptolemy in his Geographia referred to the area north of modern-day Bangladesh as Nagalogoi which means the "realm of the naked people".Gait has observed, "the collective designation by which the Nagas are known to Assamese seems to be derived as suggested by Holcombe and Peal, from nok which means folks in some of the tribal dialects.He is of the opinion that it is common throughout India for tribals to call themselves by words meaning 'man'.In this way, the word Naga means 'people of perforated ear'.Incidentally in some parts of the southern districts of rural Bengal, Lok- people or folk is pronounced nok.Na means 'ears' and Ka means holes in Burmese.Peal, "the true form of this word is not Naga but Noga from a root nog or nok, meaning 'people'.The origin of the term Naga has been a subject of considerable speculations.The term means 'naked' for some (Sanskrit origin); 'snake worshippers' for some (Tai Ahom origin); 'people of perforated ear' for some (Burmese origin) and simply 'people' for some (local or tribal origin).They are so named in the Buranjis or the Chronicles or History of the Kings of Assam.They are still called Noga by the Assamese; only the Bengali babu, by way if confusion, termed them Naga or snake worshippers of India.They look on themselves simply as people free of communal or caste associations.Verrier Elwin lends support to the view that the Naga has been derived from the Tibeto-Burman term, 'Nok' which means 'people'