# slepen
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsleː.pə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sle‧pen
* Rhymes: -eːpən

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch slêpen, from Old Dutch *slēpen, from Proto-West Germanic *slaipijan.

#### Verb

slepen
* to drag, tow
* to slide

##### Derived terms

* sleep
* sleepkabel
* sleeptouw

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: sleep
* Negerhollands: slep
* → Sranan Tongo: srepi
** → Saramaccan: séépi

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

slepen
* inflection of slijpen:
** plural past indicative
** (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

### Anagrams

* spelen

## Latvian
### Adverb

slepen
* secretly, stealthily, without others knowing or noticing; adverbial form of slepens
    tas gāja saimniekam slepen iepakaļ ― that one went stealthily behind the farmer
    jāieliek krūzē nauda, un jāierok slepen zemē; un tā, lai neviens nezina, kurā kalnā ― the money must be put in a mug, and then buried secretly in the earth, in such a way that nobody knows in which hill (it is buried)

#### Synonyms

* slepeni
* slepus
* slēpu
* zagšus

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* slæpen, sleepen, slepe

### Etymology

From Old English slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsleːpən/, /ˈslɛːpən/

### Verb

slepen (third-person singular simple present slepeth, present participle slepende, slepynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sleped)
* To sleep; to be sleeping:
** c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎, folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!"
** c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v:
    For Nature wolde nat ſuffyſe / To non erthly creature / Not longe tyme to endure / Without ſlepe & be yn ſorwe / And I ne may ne nyght ne morwe / Slepe […]For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]
** 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 9-10:And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open iyeAnd small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.
** To fall asleep; to go to sleep.
** To cause to sleep; to make sleep.
* (figuratively) To copulate, have intercourse
* (figuratively) To be unused or dormant.

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English. $^2$ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Related terms

* slep

#### Descendants

* English: sleep
** Sranan Tongo: sribi
* Middle Scots: sleip, slepe
** Scots: sleep

#### References

* “slẹ̄pen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.