slepe

See also: ślepe, slēpe, and slėpė

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːpə

Verb

slepe

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of slijpen
2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of slepen

Anagrams

• sleep, speel, spele

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English slǣp, slēp.

Alternative forms

• sleep, sleepe, slep, slæp, slape, sleap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sleːp/, /slɛːp/

Noun

slepe (uncountable)

1. 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, […]

2. dream
3. weakness, tiredness

Related terms

• slepen
• slepeles

Descendants

• English: sleep
• Scots: slepe, sleip
• Yola: slepe

References

• “slẹ̄p, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.

Etymology 2

From Old English slǣpan.

Verb

slepe

1. 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)

1. to tow, drag

Derived terms

• slepebåt

References

• “slepe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

slepe (present tense slepar or sleper, past tense slepa or slepte, past participle slepa or slept, present participle slepande, imperative slep)

1. Alternative form of slepa

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English slepe, from Old English slǣp, from Proto-West Germanic *slāp.

Noun

slepe

1. sleep

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 68