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Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
friþ
- Alternative form of frith (“peace”)
Etymology 2
Noun
friþ
- Alternative form of frith (“forest”)
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *friþu m, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“beloved, happy”).
Pronunciation
Noun
friþ n
- peace
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Æfter þǣm þe Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs IIII hunde wintra ⁊ II, þætte Cartaina þǣre burge ǣrendracan cōmon tō Rōme ⁊ him ġebudon þæt hīe frið him betwēonum hæfden...- Four hundred and two years after the city of Rome was built, messengers the city of Carthage came to Rome and proposed that there be peace between them...
- refuge, sanctuary
Declension
Declension of friþ (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Earlier *frīd, from Proto-Germanic *frīdaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
frīþ
- splendid, beautiful
Declension
Declension of frīþ — Strong
Declension of frīþ — Weak