sleepy
Significat (English)
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- Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
- Suggesting tiredness.
- Tending to induce sleep.
- Dull; lazy.
- Quiet; without bustle or activity.
Synonyms
be sleepy
sleepyheaded
be drowsy
heavy-eyed
sleepy-eyed
being sleepy
be tired
get sleepy
heavy-headed
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈsliːpi/
Etimologia (English)
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 slepi English sleepy From Middle English slepi, slepy, from Anglian Old English *slēpiġ (cognate with West Saxon *slǣpiġ, attested in unslǣpiġ (“not sleepy, sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), Middle Dutch slapig, slêpig, slapich (“sleepy”), Middle Low German slâpich, Middle High German slāfec (> archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”)).
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