sleepy

Signification (English)

Adj

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

Noun

1. (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
2. Shingleback.

Concepts

somnolent

sommeil

😴

endormi

avoir sommeil

ensommeillé

😴

fatigué

indolent

ensuqué

ayant sommeil

ensomeillé

de songe

de rêve

😴💭

Synonyms

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsliːpi/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: slepi

Inherited from ancien anglais:

Cognate with saterlandais: släipich

Cognate with frison occidental: sliepich

Cognate with moyen néerlandais: slapig

Cognate with Middle Low German: slâpich

Cognate with moyen haut-allemand: slāfec

Cognate with allemand: 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 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”)).