unfriþ
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *unfriþu, from Proto-Germanic *unfriþuz. By surface analysis, un- + friþ. Compare Dutch onvrede (“displeasure, quarrel”), German Unfriede (“strife”) and Old Norse úfriðr (“war, hostilities”).
Noun edit
unfriþ n
Declension edit
Declension of unfriþ (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
- unfriþflota m (“a hostile fleet”)
- unfriþhere m (“a hostile army”)
- unfriþland m (“a hostile country”)
- unfriþmann m (“a man from a hostile country”)
- unfriþsċip n (“a ship carrying out hostilities”)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “unfriþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.