slepe

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See also: ślepe, slēpe, and slėpė

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slepe

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

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English slǣp, slēp.

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Noun

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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
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Descendants
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  • English: sleep
  • Scots: slepe, sleip
  • Yola: slepe
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Etymology 2

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From Old English slǣpan.

Verb

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slepe

  1. Alternative form of slepen

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German slepen.

Verb

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slepe (imperative slep, present tense sleper, passive slepes, simple past slepte, past participle slept, present participle slepende)

  1. to tow, drag

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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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

Noun

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slepe f (definite singular slepa, indefinite plural sleper, definite plural slepene)

  1. a mountain path, portage

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Yola

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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slepe

  1. sleep

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  • 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