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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
slepe
- (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of slijpen
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of slepen
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English slǣp, slēp.
Pronunciation
Noun
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,
- dream
- weakness, tiredness
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
From Old English slǣpan.
Verb
slepe
- Alternative form of slepen
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German slepen.
Verb
slepe (imperative slep, present tense sleper, passive slepes, simple past slepte, past participle slept, present participle slepende)
- to tow, drag
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
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
slepe f (definite singular slepa, indefinite plural sleper, definite plural slepene)
- a mountain path, portage
Derived terms
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English slepe, from Old English slǣp, from Proto-West Germanic *slāp.
Pronunciation
Noun
slepe
- sleep
References
- 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