sleepy

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
2. Suggesting tiredness.
3. Tending to induce sleep.
4. (figuratively) Dull; lazy.
5. (figuratively) Quiet; without bustle or activity.

Noun

1. (in-plural, informal, uncountable) The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
2. (Australia, countable, uncountable) Shingleback.

Conceptes

adormit

cansat

😫

endormiscat

ensonyat

somnolent

😪

Sinònims

drowsy

somnolent

slumberous

dozy

sleeping

😴

tired

😫

slumbrous

sluggish

lethargic

soporific

be sleepy

sleepyheaded

sleepyhead

be drowsy

heavy-eyed

sleepy-eyed

slothful

somniferous

sleepiness

being sleepy

sleepbound

be

dazed

dozed

drowse

go to sleep

groggy

heavy

one-eyed

quiet

snooze

somnolently

soporiferous

be tired

get sleepy

heavy-headed

banjaxed

yawny

asleep

Traduccions

schläfrig

😪

somnolent

assonnato

😪

slaperig

😪

soñoliento

😪

sonnolento

😪

verschlafen

dormilón

😪

sommeil

😴

sonolento

😪

dormiglione

νυσταγμένος

müde

😫

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsliːpi/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: slepi

Heretat de anglès antic:

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: släipich

Cognat amb frisó occidental: sliepich

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: slapig

Cognat amb Middle Low German: slâpich

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: slāfec

Cognat amb alemany: schlafig

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *slēpaz
Proto-West Germanic *slāp
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Proto-West Germanic *slāpag
Old English *slǣpiġ
Middle English slepy
English sleepy
From Middle English slepy, from Old English *slǣpiġ (attested in unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), dialectal Dutch slapig, slepig (“sleepy”), German Low German slapig, släpig, slöpig (“sleepy”), archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”).