Hnappian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

hnappian

Add: to sleep lightly or for a short time, get drowsy :-- Ic neapiu and gerestu obdormiam et requiescam, Ps. Srt. 4, 9. For hwī hnappas þū l hwī slǣpst þū quare obdormis ?, Ps. L. 43, 23. Gehwēde hneppast paululum dormitabis, Kent. Gl. 135. Þonne wē gebǣrad for ūre rēceliésde swelce wē hit nyten, donne hnappige wē. Ac donne wē slāpad fæste, donne . . . , Past. 195, 5. Ic hneappode and slēpan ongon ego dormivi et somnum coepi, Ps. Srt. 3, 6. Zosimus nǣnige þinga hnappode and geornlīce ꝥ wēsten beheóld Zosimus did not close an eye, and gazed earnestly on the desert, Hml. S. 23 b, 666. Hī heom betweónan ān and ān hnappodon one after another they got drowsy, 23, 247. Ne hneppien nec dormitent, Kent. Gl. 126. hnappian