friþe
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]friþe
- Alternative form of frith (“forest”)
- c. 1300, “Of þe state of þingis be-fore adam synnid”, in Þe Cours of þe Werlde (Cursor Mundi, Fairfax Ms. 14)[1], page 7b, lines 657–658:
- bot þis tree ys done in my friþe / for I. wil þat hit haue griþe […]
- But this tree was put in my forest, because I want it to have protection […]