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Dutch
Verb
sliepe
- (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of slapen
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian slēpa, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan. Compare Saterland Frisian släipe, Dutch slapen.
Pronunciation
Verb
sliepe
- to sleep
- 2008, Greet Andringa, Libben reach, Friese Pers Boekerij, page 70.
Hy koe net sliepe, want de dreamen oer syn deade maten wiene noch slimmer as wat er mei de eagen iepen seach.- He couldn't sleep, because the dreams about his dead companions were even worse than what he saw with his eyes open.
Conjugation
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Further reading
- “sliepe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011