Old English · noun
slæp
Normalised slǣp
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /slæːp/
- Syllables
- slæːp (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- sleep
Meaning
-
sleep
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."
c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
Declension
All forms (6)
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).
Descendants
sleep
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