slepe

• Rhymes: -eːpə

slepe

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

• sleep, speel, spele

From Old English slǣp, slēp.

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

• IPA^(key): /sleːp/, /slɛːp/

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

• slepen
• slepeles

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

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

From Old English slǣpan.

slepe

1. Alternative form of slepen

From Middle Low German slepen.

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

1. to tow, drag

• slepebåt

• “slepe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. a mountain path, portage

• Nordmannsslepe
• tømmerslepe

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

• IPA^(key): /sliːp/

slepe

1. sleep

• 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