frid.

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 standard Swedish, e.g. in ved or fred, but here -i- is preserved as an archaic spelling artifact which seems to be the cause of the current pronunciation with /-iː-/ (a spelling pronunciation), although German Friede may have influenced the pronunciation as well (see SAOB).