Somnambulist (noun)
som-nam-boo-list
A sleepwalker. Someone who walks in their sleep.
I just love the way this word sounds. From French somnus for sleep, ambulare to walk.
Example sentences
“He was such a somnambulist he never knew where he would wake up.”
“After years of being a somnambulist she’d become used to waking in strange places.”

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