The story
- Old English · inherited fromunslǣpiġ“sleepless”
- Middle English · inherited from*unslepy
- 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.