Despite the letter Z being more of a visual representation of sleep than a verbal one, it has influenced language across the globe. In the 1940s, the verb zonk (out) emerged to convey suddenly falling ...

An ergative verb assigns its argument to the external position ... Ergative verbs include: go, walk, run, swim, work, crawl, sleep (all of these verbs must be intransitive to be ergative).

However, if we are talking about the purpose of an object or an action, we normally use the for + verb-ing pattern ... to bed early in order to get enough sleep before the exam.

Nelax is a portmanteau that combines “ne-,” the stem for the Japanese verb for “to sleep,” and the English word “relax.” The product is also labeled in Japanese as a “weighted ...