fremd

Meanings

Adjective

• Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
• Not kin, unrelated; foreign.
• Wild; untamed.

Noun

• A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.
• An enmity.

Origin

• From Middle English fremde, fremede, from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz. Cognate with Scots fremmit, frempt, West Frisian frjemd, Dutch vreemd, German fremd, Swedish främmande. More at from.