aslepe

Middle English

Etymology 1

a- (“on”) +‎ slepe

Alternative forms

asleape, aslape, o slæpe

Adverb

aslepe

asleep, in or into a state of sleep.

Descendants

English: asleep
Yola: aslepe

References

“aslēpe (adv.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

a- (“of”) +‎ slepe

Adverb

aslepe

from sleep

References

“aslēpe (adv.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English aslepe.

Adverb

aslepe

asleep

References

Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN

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