slepen

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːpən

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Anagrams

• spelen

Adverb

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)

Alternative forms

• slæpen, sleepen, slepe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsleːpən/

Verb

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