köken: From Middle High German siben slāfære, referring to the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Univerbation since the 15th century. Use for “one who sleeps a lot” since the 17th century. The biological sense since the 18th century because of the animal's hibernation, which may last more than seven months.
A person who sleeps until late in the morning, sleepyhead · dormouse (especially the edible dormouse, Glis glis), or other animals that hibernate during winter
çekim: çoğul sjusovares · tamlayan sjusovares
köken: sju (“seven”) + sovare (“sleeper”), since 1559, from the legend of the Seven Sleepers. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sjusovar.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pelH- Proto-Balto-Slavic *peliā? Proto-Slavic *pьlxъ Old Polish pilch Polish pilch Inherited from Old Polish pilch.
köken: From svefn (“sleep”) + purka (“a miserable or a sleepy person”). The noun purka is a rare word which has quite a few other meanings in Icelandic such as “something of small height” (compare the Danish purk (“a small lad”) or the dialectal Swedish purka (“a short and chubby woman; sow; miser”)). The oldest written example from the Orðabók Háskólans ("the University Dictionary") of the word…