slæp
Middle English edit
Noun edit
slæp (uncountable)
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of slepe
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From 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 edit
Noun edit
slǣp 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 edit
Declension of slæp (strong a-stem)