schlaaffe

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

schlooffe
schlofe (Badisch)
schlaafä, schloafe, schloafen, schlofe, schlàfu (Italian Walser)

Etymology

From Middle High German slāfen, from Old High German slāfan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną. Cognate with German schlafen, Dutch slapen, English sleep.

Verb

schlaaffe (third-person singular simple present schlaafft, past participle gschlaaffe, past subjunctive schlieff, auxiliary haa)

to sleep
- 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili:
  „Ächje, my gueti Bäsi Gryt,
  
  's Zähndweh und 's Heiweh schloffed nüd.“
  ‘Alas, my good aunt Peggy, toothache and homesickness do not sleep.’

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