slepy

• slepi, slepie
• sclepy (Late Middle English)

Inherited from Old English *slǣpiġ; equivalent to slep (“sleep”) +‎ -y (“-y”).

slepy

1. sleepy (liable to sleep)
   • c. 1250, The Story of Genesis and Exodus‎^[1] (poem):

     He woren drunken and slepi.

     They were drunk and sleepy.

2. sleepy (soporific; causing sleep)
3. sleepy (lazy, sluggish)
4. (rare) Pertaining to or characteristic of sleep.

• English: sleepy
• Middle Scots: slepy, sleipy
  • Scots: sleepy

• “slẹ̄pī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “sleepy, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slě̑pъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɛpɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɛpɨ
• Hyphenation: sle‧py
• Syllabification: sle‧py

slepy (comparative slepiši, superlative najslepiši, absolute superlative nanajslepiši, excessive přeslepy, adverb slepje)

1. blind (unable to see)

• “slepy” in Soblex