Fremd

//fɹɛmd// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest. dialectal, rare
  2. 2
    An enmity. archaic, obsolete
  3. 3
    Humorous alteration of "friend". Internet, childish
Adjective
  1. 1
    Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar. dialectal, rare

    "a fremd day"

  2. 2
    Not kin, unrelated; foreign. dialectal, rare

    "[...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood."

  3. 3
    Wild; untamed. obsolete

Synonyms

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alienoutlandishstrangeaberrantalienalien

Example

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"Something fremd has been going on here."

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.

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