- su̯ep-1, sup-
- su̯ep-1, sup-English meaning: to sleep, *cease, dieDeutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlafen”Note: Root su̯ep-1, sup- : “to sleep, *cease, die” derived from Root su̯ep-2, sup-, su̯eb- : “to throw, *sway, swing (put to sleep)”.Material: O.Ind. svápiti, svápati “ asleep, dozed off “, pass. supyatē, participle suptá- “dozed off”, Kaus. svüpá yati ‘schläfert ein” (= O.Ice. sø̄ fa), svapayati ds. (= O.Ice. svefja etc.); Av. x ̌ap- ‘sleep”; Gk. ὕπαρ “Wehrtraum”; Lat. sōpiō, -īre “einschläfern”, sŏpor, -ōris “tiefer sleep” (*su̯epōr); O.Ice. sofa (svaf), O.E. swefan st. V. ‘sleep, cease”; Kaus. O.Ice. svefja “einschläfern, stillen, besänftigen”, O.E. swefian ds., O.E. swebban “einschläfern, slay”, O.S. answebbian, O.H.G. antswebben, M.H.G. entsweben ds., M.H.G. also “ sleepy become, einschlafen” (*su̯opéi̯ō); O.Ice. sø̄ fa ‘slay”(*su̯ōpéi̯ō); O.Ice. suǣ fa “einschläfern” (*su̯ēpei̯ō), syfja uPers. “ sleepy make”, E.Fris. suffen “ sleepy become” (Dutch suf ‘schwindlig, stupid”); O.Ice. sofna schw. V. “einschlafen”; M.H.G. swep, -bes ‘sleep”, O.E. sweofot n. ds.; O.C.S. sъpati, Iter. sypati ‘sleep”, usъnǫti “einschlafen”; O.Ind. svápna- ‘sleep, dream”, Av. x ̌afna- m. ds.; Arm. k”un, gen. k”noy ‘sleep” (*su̯opnos); Gk. ὕπνος ‘sleep” (= O.C.S. sъnъ and:) Alb. gjumë;Note: Alb. gjumë ‘sleep”, për-gjumësh ‘sleepy” and Lat. somnus ‘sleep” derived from a common root su̯opnos but the phonetic shift Lat. p > mp > m is a typical Alb. not Lat. mutatIon. compare Alb.Gheg mesa (*nepōtiü), Tosc mbesa “niece”. Clearly Lat. shared the same root with Illyr. Phonetically Alb. gjumë ‘sleep” : O.Ir. sūan, Welsh Corn. Bret. hun ‘sleep” : Hitt. sup- (Medium), supparii̯a- ‘sleep”. are identical. Lat. somnus ‘sleep” (*su̯epnos or *su̯opnos); O.Ir. sūan, Welsh Corn. Bret. hun ‘sleep” (*sopnos = Lith. sãpnas); O.Ice. svefn, O.E. swefn ‘sleep, dream”, (from *su̯epnós); Lith. sãpnas, sapnỹs “dream”, Ltv. sapnis “dream”; O.C.S. sъnъ ‘sleep, dream”; compare O.Ind. asvapna- ‘schlaflos”, Av. ax ̌afna- ds., Lat. insomnis, Gk. ἄυπνος ds. and diei̯o-derivative O.Ind. svápnyam “ dream “, Lat. somnium “dream”, žem. sapnis ‘sleep, dream”, O.C.S. sъnije “ dream “; Gk. ἐνύπνιον (replicated Lat. insomnium) ds., Welsh anhunedd “insomnia”; Toch. A ṣpǝn, В ṣpäne ‘sleep, dream”; Hitt. sup- (Medium), supparii̯a- ‘sleep”.References: WP. II 523 f., WH. II 557 f., Trautmann 292 f., Vasmer 2, 694.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.