sleepe

English

Noun

sleepe (countable and uncountable, plural sleepes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sleep.

Verb

sleepe (third-person singular simple present sleepes, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slepte)

1. Obsolete spelling of sleep.
   • 1633, John Donne, Loves Diet:

     Now negligent of sports I lye,
     And now as other Fawkners use,
     I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
     And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.

Anagrams

• Peeles, elpees, peeles

Middle English

Noun

sleepe

1. alternative form of sleep

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• sliap (Föhr-Amrum)
• släipe (Mooring)
• sliip (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian slēpa, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną (“to sleep”).

Verb

sleepe

1. (Halligen) to sleep