köken: From Middle High German vride, from Old High German fridu. See also Dutch vrede, Danish fred, Swedish fred, English frith (“peace”). Starting in the 18th century, the weak form Friede started shifting to strong Frieden through spread of the ending from the oblique forms.
köken: Inherited from Old French pais, paiz, from Latin pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, to attach”).
aile: avoir la paix, calumet de la paix, faire la paix, ficher la paix, foutre la paix, gardien de la paix, gardienne de la paix, havre de paix, paix-toi la djeule, repose en paix
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mirъ (“peace; world”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *meiˀrás (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey(H)-ró-s. The dual meaning of "peace" and "world" is unique to Slavic. The pre-1918 orthography had an orthographical distinction of the two identically pronounced words to avoid confusion.
köken: From Middle Dutch ruste, from Old Dutch *rusta, from Proto-Germanic *rustijō. Cognate with English rest, German Low German Rüst (“rest”), German Rüste (“end, sunset”).
köken: A variant of fred, from Old Swedish friþer, from Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz. The spelling of the vowel as -i- originally signified a short vowel that became lengthened after original long and short vowels had diverged in quality and vowel length became positional. This vowel has generally been merged with the original short -e- and spelled thus and pronounced /eː/ in modern…