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slápan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
slápan, p. slép, sleáp; pp. slápen
Wright's OE grammar
§119;
To sleep.
of natural sleep
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  • Slǽpst ðú ? Mk. Skt. 14, 37.

  • Heó slǽpþ. Mt. Kmbl. 9, 24:

    Jn. Skt.

      11, 12.

  • Simle hé biþ lociende, ne slǽpþ hé nǽfre,

      81. 42; Fox 258, 8.

  • Ðonne wé sápaþ,

      34, 11 ; Fox 152, 5.

  • Hwí slápe gé?

    Lk. Skt.

      22, 46.

  • Ic slép (sleáp,

    Ps. Spl.

    ),
      Ps. Lamb. 56, 5.

  • Hé slép. Gen. i. 21: 28, 11: Bd. 3,

      9; S. 534, ii. Óðre men slépon, 2, 12; S. 513, 37: Bt. 15; Fox 48, 12.

  • Ealle slépun,

      Mt. Kmbl. 25, 5.

  • Slápaþ

    dormite,

      Mk. Skt. 14, 41.

  • Ðeáh hé slápe,

      Ps. Th. 40, 9: Lchdm. ii. 36, 9.

  • Swelce se stióra slépe,

      Past. 56; Swt. 431, 30.

  • Mé lyste slápan

    dormiturio,

      Ælfc. Gr. 34; Zup. 211, 12: Ps. Th. 3, 4:, Ors. 4, 6; Swt. 178, 24: Bd. 3, 11; S. 536, 30: Shrn. 106, 23.

  • Ðonne mon wile slápan gán,

      Lchdm. ii. 228, 5. ' Hé wæs slápende, Mk. Skt. 4, 38 : Homl. Th. i. 566, 17.

  • Ia. figurative,

    to sleep, be inactive, be motionless

    :-- For hwí slǽpst ðú,
      Driht-en? Ps. Th. 43, 24.
  • Ðæt mód slǽpþ ðæs ðe hit wacian sceolde, and wacaþ ðæs ðe hit slápan sceolde. Past. 56; Swt. 431, 27.
  • Ðonne wé slápaþ fæste, ðonne we nóhwæðer ne hit witan nyllaþ, ne hit bétan nyllaþ . . . ne slǽpþ hé nó fæsðe, ac hnappaþ . . . . 28; Swt. 195, 5-8.

  • Ðæt ic

    (the creation)

    ne slépe siddan ǽfre,
      Exon. Th. 422, 20; Ra. 41, 9.
  • Ib. of death

    Ic slápe on deáþe,

      Ps. Spl. 12, 4.

  • Lazarus slǽpþ . . . Se Hǽlend hit cwæþ be his deáþe,

      Jn. Skt. 11. 11.

  • Ðæt míne eágan nǽfre ne slápan on swylcum deáþe,

      Ps. Th. 12, 4.

  • Be ðám slápendum, ðæt is, be ðám deádum. Hwí sind ða deádan slápende gecwedene? . . . Ealle móton slápan on ðám gemǽnelícum deáþe,

      Homl. Th. ii. 566, 30-34.

  • I c. of numbness in the limbs,

    to sleep, be paralyzed:

    — Gif wé tó lange sittaþ us slápaþ ða lima, i.
      490, 1.
  • Gif þeóh slápan . . . lǽt reócan on ðæt lim ðætte slápe. Lchdm. ii. 66, 5-6.

  • Wið slápende

    (paralyzed)

    líce, i.
      380, 18.
  • Cf. Wið áslápenum lice, ii. 12, 17.
to sleep, lie with a person
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  • His hlǽfdige cwæþ tó him : 'Slap mid me, ' Gen. 39, 7.
Etymology
[Strong preterites, as well as weak, are found in Chaucer and Langland. Goth. slépan: O. Sax. slápan: O. Frs. slepa : O. H. Ger. sláfan.]
Similar entries
v. á, on-slapan, be-slǽpan (-slápan); slǽpan, slápian.
Linked entries
v.  slápian.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “slápan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27960.

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