slepen
Middle English
/ˈsleːpən/
verb
Definitions
- to sleep
- to become asleep, to cause to sleep
- to copulate, have intercourse
- to be unused or unutilised
Etymology
Inherited from Old English slǣpan inherited from *slāpan inherited from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną (sleep).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*slēpaną
Gloss
sleep
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
寝, 眠, 睡
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antisleep English
- asleep English
- autosleep English
- besleep English
- coldsleep English
- cosleep English
- cryosleep English
- dogsleep English
- electrosleep English
- forsleep English
- hypersleep English
- microsleep English
- midsleep English
- nonsleep English
- outsleep English
- oversleep English
- postsleep English
- presleep English
- sleep English
- sleep-eat English
- sleep-fuck English
- sleepable English
- sleepaholic English
- sleepbound English
- sleepdriving English
- sleepeat English
- sleeper English
- sleepest English
- sleepeth English
- sleepful English
- sleepies English
- sleepish English
- sleepless English
- sleeplike English
- sleepness English
- sleepover English
- sleepsack English
- sleepshirt English
- sleepsuit English
- sleeptalk English
- sleeptalker English
- sleepwaker English
- sleepwaking English
- sleepwalk English
- sleepwalker English
- sleepward English
- sleepwear English
- sleepwise English
- sleepwort English
- sleepwrite English
- sleepy English
- undersleep English
- unsleep English
- *slab- Proto-Indo-European
- *hliwjaną Proto-Germanic
- *slēpaną Proto-Germanic
- beslæpan Old English
- slæpan Old English
- slǣpan Old English
- slafan Old High German
- slāfan Old High German
- 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *slāpan gmw-pro
- slapan Old Dutch
- slāpan Old Dutch
- *lebäit'äk Proto-Finnic
- slapan Old Saxon
- slip Volapük
- slipön Volapük
- slip Tok Pisin
- schlipen Crimean Gothic