English
Napgate
From nap + -gate.
Formed from nap + -gate
Proto-West Germanic *hnappōn ‘to nap’
Old English hnappian ‘to doze, slumber, sleep’
Middle English nappen ‘to nap or doze’
English nap
Today it means
name A 2010 controversy in which Ken Griffey, Jr., of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners, was reported to have been asleep in the clubhouse during a game.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Napgate