somnambulate
to walk while asleep
Roots
- ambul: walk, move about, or wander
- somn / sopor: sleep
Other words with the ambul root
- amble: to walk at an easy pace
- ambulance: vehicle that carries sick or injured people
- ambulate: to walk or move from place to place
- ambulatory: able to walk; relating to walking or movement
- circumambulate: to walk around something
- perambulate: to walk through or around
- preamble: an introductory statement
Other words with the somn / sopor root
- insomnia: inability to sleep
- somnambulism: the condition of sleepwalking
- somnambulist: a sleepwalker
- somnolent: sleepy or drowsy
- soporific: causing sleep
Somn gives sleep and ambul gives walk. Somnambulate is sleep-walk.
As a child, he would somnambulate down the hallway.