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peaceEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ḱs Proto-Italic *pāks Latin pāx Old French pais Anglo-Norman peisbor. Middle English pees English peace From Middle English pees, pes, pais, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pacīscor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Doublet of pax. Displaced native Old English sibb, frēols, and broadly ousted friþ (modern frith).

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1908

PeaceEnglish · e-38699-2345
Peace, pēs, n. a state of quiet: freedom from disturbance: freedom from war: friendliness: calm: rest: harmony: silence.—interj. silence: be silent: hist!—adj. Peace′able, disposed to peace: free from war or disturbance:
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fēogan

An Old English verb meaning hate or persecute, recorded as FEÓGAN, feógean, fiógan, contracted feón and fión, with participle feógende and a broad present-and-past paradigm. Bosworth–Toller supplies examples whose objects include crimes, evil ways, law, peace, a temple, friends, and people. The verb continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *fi(j)ēn-. Its active-participial formation lexicalized prehistorically as the enemy noun behind Old English fēond and modern fiend, but the verb, participle, and noun are not one interchangeable category.

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Psalm, those who hate peace

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