slepe
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eːpə
Verb edit
slepe
- (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of slijpen
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of slepen
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English slǣp, slēp.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
slepe (uncountable)
- sleep, restfulness
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v:
- For Nature wolde nat ſuffyſe / To non erthly creature / Not longe tyme to endure / Without ſlepe & be yn ſorwe / And I ne may ne nyght ne morwe / Slepe […]
- For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v:
- dream
- weakness, tiredness
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “slẹ̄p, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English slǣpan.
Verb edit
slepe
- Alternative form of slepen
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German slepen.
Verb edit
slepe (imperative slep, present tense sleper, passive slepes, simple past slepte, past participle slept, present participle slepende)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “slepe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
slepe (present tense slepar or sleper, past tense slepa or slepte, past participle slepa or slept, present participle slepande, imperative slep)
- Alternative form of slepa
Noun edit
slepe f (definite singular slepa, indefinite plural sleper, definite plural slepene)
Derived terms edit
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English slepe, from Old English slǣp, from Proto-West Germanic *slāp.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
slepe
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68