Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *slēpanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_slēpaną
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langueōto be faint, listless
verbStrong class 7dto sleepUnclear. May be related to *slapaz (‘weak, lax’), itself of unclear origin, or possibly back-formed to *slabōną/*slappōną.Older theories tentatively derived the word from a hypothetical base *slē‑, extended in pre-Germanic as *slēb-, from earlier Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁‑, which could be related to *(s)leh₁g-; see also Latin langueō (‘to be faint, listless’), Old English slæc (‘lazy’).