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fremd

adj
/fɹɛmd/US

Etymology

From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”). Cognate with Scots fremmit, frempt (“fremd”), West Frisian frjemd (“strange, fremd”), Dutch vreemd (“strange, foreign”), German fremd (“fremd, strange, foreign”), Swedish främmande (“foreign, outlandish, strange”). More at from.

  1. inherited from *framaþiz✻ — “foreign, not one's own”
  2. inherited from *framiþī✻
  3. inherited from fremde
  4. inherited from fremde

Definitions

  1. Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary

    Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.

    • a fremd day
    • Something fremd has been going on here.
    • A fremd man this.

  2. Not kin, unrelated

    Not kin, unrelated; foreign.

    • [...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood.
    • [...] and if I'm to be no more hereafter to them that belong to me, than to legions of strange angels, or a whole nation of fremd folk!

  3. Wild

    Wild; untamed.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A stranger

      A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.

    2. An enmity.

    3. Humorous alteration of "friend".

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA