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