slepen

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• Rhymes: -eːpən

From Middle Dutch slêpen, from Old Dutch *slēpen, from Proto-Germanic *slaipijaną.

slepen

1. to drag, to tow
2. to slide

• sleep
• sleepkabel
• sleeptouw

See the etymology of the main entry.

slepen

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of slijpen

• spelen

slepen

1. secretly, stealthily, without others knowing or noticing; adverbial form of slepens

   tas gāja saimniekam slepen iepakaļ ― that one went stealthily behind the farmer

   jāieliek krūzē nauda, un jāierok slepen zemē; un tā, lai neviens nezina, kurā kalnā ― the money must be put in a mug, and then buried secretly in the earth, in such a way that nobody knows in which hill (it is buried)

• slepeni
• slepus
• slēpu
• zagšus

• slæpen, sleepen, slepe

From Old English slǣpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsleːpən/

slepen (third-person singular simple present slepeth, present participle slepende, simple past and past participle sleped)

1. to sleep
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.

     And smale foweles maken melodye,

     That slepen al the nyght with open eye-

     (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);

2. to become asleep, to cause to sleep
3. to copulate, have intercourse
4. to be unused or unutilised

• slepe, sleepe, sleep

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

• “slẹ̄pen (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.