sleepe

sleepe (countable and uncountable, plural sleepes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sleep.

sleepe (third-person singular simple present sleepes, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slepte)

1. Obsolete spelling of sleep.
   • 1633, John Donne, Loves Diet:

     Now negligent of sports I lye,
     And now as other Fawkners use,
     I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
     And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.

• Peeles, elpees, peeles

sleepe

1. alternative form of sleep

• sliap (Föhr-Amrum)
• släipe (Mooring)
• sliip (Sylt)

From Old Frisian slēpa, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną (“to sleep”).

sleepe

1. (Halligen) to sleep