slæp
Middle English
editNoun
editslæp (uncountable)
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of slepe
Old English
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editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *slāp.
Cognate with Old Saxon slaep, slāp (Low German Slaap), Middle Dutch slaep (Dutch slaap), Old High German slāf (German Schlaf).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editslǣp m
- sleep
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
- Þæt cild þære meder geandwyrde, "Modor min, nyste ic hú ðyses geares ymryne geendode, forðan ðe ic softum slǣpe me gereste, swa swa ðu me forlete, oð þæt þu eft me nu awrehtest."
- The child answered the mother, "My mother, I know not how this year's course has ended, for I was resting in soft sleep, as thou didst leave me, until thou now again hast awakened me."
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
Declension
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