See slepen on Wiktionary
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "binnenslepen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "sleep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "sleepkabel"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
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"raw_tags": [
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{
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"plural",
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
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]
},
{
"form": "slepe",
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"present",
"singular"
]
},
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{
"form": "slepend",
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"text": "tas gāja saimniekam slepen iepakaļ",
"translation": "that one went stealthily behind the farmer",
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39
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56
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"english": "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)",
"text": "jāieliek krūzē nauda, un jāierok slepen zemē; un tā, lai neviens nezina, kurā kalnā",
"translation": "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)",
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}
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[
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"know"
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[
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"word": "slepeni"
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{
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{
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"present",
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"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
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},
{
"form": "slepe",
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"imperative",
"present",
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{
"form": "-",
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"past",
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{
"form": "slepen",
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{
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"past",
"plural"
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{
"form": "slepten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slepte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slepeden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sleped",
"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slepede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slepeth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slepe",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slepynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slepende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slepen",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yslepen",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slepe",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past"
]
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{
"form": "yslepe",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slept",
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"participle",
"past"
]
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{
"form": "yslept",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past"
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},
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"form": "sleped",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ysleped",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sclepe",
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]
},
{
"form": "sclepen",
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},
{
"form": "sleepen",
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"form": "slepe",
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]
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"form": "slæpen",
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},
{
"form": "sleape",
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]
},
{
"form": "slæpenn",
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"alternative",
"Ormulum"
]
},
{
"form": "slepyn",
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"alternative",
"East-Anglia"
]
},
{
"form": "slape",
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]
},
{
"form": "sclope",
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"alternative"
]
},
{
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]
}
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69,
73
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78,
89
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"ref": "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), 29 May 2019:",
"text": "Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon",
"translation": "\"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!\"",
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{
"english": "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, […]",
"ref": "c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v",
"text": "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 […]",
"translation": "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, […]",
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34,
45
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33,
41
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"text": "And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open iye",
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"present",
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"singular",
"third-person"
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"plural"
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"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
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},
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"past",
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"present",
"subjunctive"
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"archaic",
"past",
"plural",
"subjunctive"
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{
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"present",
"singular"
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},
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"imperative",
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"present"
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{
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{
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"bold_text_offsets": [
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20,
26
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14,
24
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"text": "tas gāja saimniekam slepen iepakaļ",
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{
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33,
39
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],
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48,
56
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],
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"text": "jāieliek krūzē nauda, un jāierok slepen zemē; un tā, lai neviens nezina, kurā kalnā",
"translation": "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)",
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[
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[
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"know"
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[
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[
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{
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{
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},
{
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}
],
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