slepe
Dutch
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -eːpə
Verb
editslepe
- (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of slijpen
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of slepen
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English slǣp, slēp.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editslepe (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
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “slẹ̄p, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
Etymology 2
editFrom Old English slǣpan.
Verb
editslepe
- Alternative form of slepen
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Low German slepen.
Verb
editslepe (imperative slep, present tense sleper, passive slepes, simple past slepte, past participle slept, present participle slepende)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “slepe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editVerb
editslepe (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
editslepe f (definite singular slepa, indefinite plural sleper, definite plural slepene)
Derived terms
editYola
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English slepe, from Old English slǣp, from Proto-West Germanic *slāp.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editslepe
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
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