slepe

• Rhymes: -eːpə

slepe

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of slijpen
2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of slepen

• sleep, speel, spele

slepe (uncountable)

1. alternative form of slep
2. dative of slep

slepe

1. alternative form of slepen

Inherited from Danish slæbe with native Norwegian -p-, from Middle Low German slêpen, from Proto-West Germanic *slaipijan. Doublet of sløyfe (“to strike, omit”).

slepe (imperative slep, present tense sleper, passive slepes, simple past slepte, past participle slept, present participle slepende)

1. to tow, drag

• “slepe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

slepe (present tense slepar or sleper, past tense slepa or slepte, past participle slepa or slept, present participle slepande, imperative slep)

1. alternative form of slepa

slepe f (definite singular slepa, indefinite plural sleper, definite plural slepene)

1. a mountain path, portage

• Nordmannsslepe
• tømmerslepe

• IPA^(key): /ˈsleː.pe/

slēpe

1. dative singular of slēp

slēpe

1. inflection of slǣpan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive

From Middle English slep, from Old English slēp, from Proto-West Germanic *slāp.

• IPA^(key): /sliːp/

slepe

1. sleep

• aslepe

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68