Etymology

unsleepy

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Today it means: Not sleepy; wakeful. Full definition →

Middle English *unslepy ← Old English unslǣpiġ
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromunslǣpiġ“sleepless”
  2. Middle English · inherited from*unslepy
  3. English todayunsleepy

From un- + sleepy, perhaps continuing Middle English *unslepy, from Old English unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”). Compare Dutch onslaperig (“unsleepy”), German unschläfrig (“unsleepy”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.