*friþuz

Runic: ᚠᚱᛁᚦᚢᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈɸri.θuz/

noun · masculine · u-stem

Meanings

  1. love, friendship
  2. peace, tranquility
  3. sanctuary, refuge

Etymology

From *frijaz (‘free’) + *-þuz.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.friþuzfriþiwiz
Acc.friþųfriþunz
Gen.friþauzfriþiwǫ̂
Dat.friþiwifriþumaz
Inst.friþūfriþumiz
Voc.friþufriþiwiz

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Descendants

  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *exfridō (Vulgar Latin)
  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • fritho (Old Dutch)
      • vrēde (Middle Dutch)
        • vrieëd (Limburgish)
  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • fritho (Old Dutch)
      • vrēde (Middle Dutch)
        • vrede, vree, vreed (Dutch)
          • vrede (Afrikaans)
          • vreed, vrede, vreede (Negerhollands)
          • vrede, freide (Sranan Tongo)
  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • friþ, ferþ (Old English)
      • frith, ffryth, firth, freth, freþ, frið, friþ, friþþ, fryth, fryþ (Middle English)
        • frith (English)
  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • fretho (Old Frisian)
      • Free (Saterland Frisian)
      • frede (West Frisian)
  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • fridu, frid (Old High German)
      • vride, vrit (Middle High German)
        • friide (Cimbrian)
        • Friede, Frieden (German)
        • Fridden (Luxembourgish)
        • פֿרידן (fridn) (Yiddish)
  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • frithu (Old Saxon)
      • vrēde (Middle Low German)
        • Fräd (Plautdietsch)
  • *friþu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • frithu (Old Saxon)
      • vrēde (Middle Low German)
        • ? (Low German)
          • Freed (German Low German)
  • ? (Proto-Norse)
    • friðr (Old Norse)
      • fred (Danish)
      • friður (Faroese)
      • friður (Icelandic)
      • fred (Norwegian Bokmål)
      • fred (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • ? (Proto-Norse)
    • friðr (Old Norse)
      • friþer (Old Swedish)
        • fred, frid (Swedish)
  • *𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 (*friþus) (Gothic)

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