Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slēpaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unclear. May be related to *slapaz (“weak, lax”),[1] itself of unclear origin, or possibly back-formed to *slabōną/*slappōną.[2]
Older theories tentatively derived the word from a hypothetical base *slē‑, extended in pre-Germanic as *slēb-, from earlier Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁‑, which could be related to *(s)leh₁g-; see also Latin langueō (“to be faint, listless”), Old English slæc (“lazy”).[3][4][5]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*slēpaną
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *slēpaną (strong class 7d)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *slāpan
- Old English: slǣpan, slēpan, slāpan
- Old Frisian: slēpa
- Old Saxon: slāpan
- Old Dutch: slāpan
- Old High German: slāfan
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐌰𐌽 (slēpan)
- Crimean Gothic: schlipen
References
[edit]- ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “slapen”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*slēpan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 453
- ^ “sleep”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sleep”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “lē̆b‑”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 655