Noun: friþ
Gender: n
Genitive
| Singular | friþes |
| Plural | friþa |
Dative
| Singular | friþe |
| Plural | friþum |
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
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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 [from] the city of Carthage came to Rome and proposed that there be peace between them...)
Nouns inflected like friþ
bereærn,
ymbren,
meregrot,
wæscern,
gangern,
efenwerod,
wintersetl,
unswefn,
efnwerod,
hellegod,
cynesetl,
earsþerl,
þiccett,
æfdæl,
eorþern,
eorðærn,
handbred,
deorf,
eafoþ,
eolet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *friþu m, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“beloved, happy”).
Verbs referencing "friþ"
English Nouns
affray, English Nouns
frith, Middle English Nouns
frith, Old Norse Nouns
friðr.
Translations