Where does “slæp” come from?

slæp (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic slāp, from Proto-Germanic slēpaz — sleep.

slæp (Old English): sleep

Definitions

  1. sleep

Ancestry of “slæp”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicslāpsleep
2Proto-Germanicslēpazsleep
Every word from Proto-Germanic slēpaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic slāp →