Pronunciation of "Friis"

[pdenisowski]

I have always pronounced this like the English word "freeze," /friz/ but I've also heard it pronounced as "frees" /fris/ and even "frihs" /frɪs/

I'm preparing a video where I talk about the Friis equation and want to see if I'm going to catch heat for pronouncing it the way I always do

[Don't laugh:  I've had people criticize the way I pronounce VSWR (viz-wahr) and NVIS (nih-vuhs) in previous videos]

Thanks!

(Edit: added IPA)

[JohanH]

The name Friis is originally Danish. Correct pronunciation would be "frihs" or "frees" (vocal sound as in "beat"). I'm not a native English speaker so I wouldn't know the difference between "frees" and "frihs"; sounds the same to me. But definitely not "freeze", as the z-sound doesn't really exist in Danish.

[JohanH]

And the R-sound should actually sound like a French R if we are picky. IPA spelling of "Friis" would be [fʁiˀs]. In real Danish, the vocal (i) should be followed by "ˀ" (Stød), which is a form of glottal stop and btw. also impossible for me to pronounce as Swedish speaker. So I'm happily pronouncing "i" as a longer vocal there instead.

[JohanH]

(The name comes of course originally from the Frisian Islands).

[pdenisowski]

And the R-sound should actually sound like a French R if we are picky. IPA spelling of "Friis" would be [fʁiˀs]. In real Danish, the vocal (i) should be followed by "ˀ" (Stød), which is a form of glottal stop and btw. also impossible for me to pronounce as Swedish speaker. So I'm happily pronouncing "i" as a longer vocal there instead.

A man who know his phonology and can figure out how to type IPA    Thanks!