Etymograph

English

presleep

From pre- + sleep.

Formed from pre- + sleep

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

Proto-Germanic *slēpaną ‘to sleep’

Proto-West Germanic *slāpan

Anglian Old English slēpan ‘to sleep’

Middle English slepen ‘to sleep’

English sleep

Today it means

adj Before a period of sleep.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “presleep”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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