Definitions For Fremd

Noun

FREMD (plural FREMDs) (rare, or, dialectal) A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest. (archaic, or, obsolete) An enmity.

Adjective

{{en-adj, er, more}} (rare, chiefly, dialectal) strange, strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar. : {{ux, en, a fremd day}} : {{ux, en, Something fremd has been going on here.}} : {{ux, en, A fremd man this.}} (rare, chiefly, dialectal) Not kin, unrelated; foreign. (obsolete) wild, wild; untamed.

Derived terms

fremdling fremedly fremsome

Alternative forms

{{alter, en, frem, frim, fren}}

Etymology

From Middle English fremde, fremede, t=strange, foreign, from {{inh, en, ang, fremde}}, fremede, fremeþe, t=foreign, strange, from {{inh, en, gem-pro, framaþiz, t=foreign, not one's own}}, from {{inh, en, ine-pro, *perəm-}}, *prom-, t=forth, forward, from *por-, t=forward, through. Cognate with {{cog, sco, fremmit}}, frempt, t=fremd, {{cog, fy, frjemd, t=strange, fremd}}, {{cog, nl, vreemd, t=strange, foreign}}, {{cog, de, fremd, t=fremd, strange, foreign}}, {{cog, sv, främmande, t=foreign, outlandish, strange}}. More at from.