unfriþ

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”). Compare to modern English fray ("conflict, quarrel, heated argument,") which derives by aphesis from affray—an Old French loan—ultimately equivalent to a compound of French é- ("out, away from, de-") + Frankish *friþu (“peace, sanctuary”), thus an equivalent formation to unfriþ.

unfriþ n

1. absence of peace, hostility
2. the state of being out of the king's peace

Strong a-stem:

• 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”)

• Middle English: unfrith, unfrit, unfriðe
  • English: unfrith

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “unfriþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.