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 ligne, from Latin līnea.
aile: aligner, avion de ligne, dans les grandes lignes, en ligne, entrer en ligne de compte, hors ligne, juge de ligne, ligne claire, ligne d'arrivée, ligne de bataille
köken: Borrowed from Old French vogue, from the verb voguer (“to sway, move along”), from Old Italian vogare, of Germanic origin, from Old Saxon wagon (“to float, move as in waves”). Related to modern French vogue (“wave; course of success”), and the verb voguer (“move through the water”). Compare Italian vogare, Catalan vogar, and Portuguese vogar. An alternative, and less likely, theory derives it…
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: Rearrangement of 和平 (wahei, “peace”), likely that 平 (hei) also means "flat", therefore switching the kanji meant "calm, equal + harmony → peace". First attested in the Meiji era.