fremd

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Definition of fremd in English English dictionary

strange; foreign, alien; far off or away, distant

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 !.

out of the ordinary, unusual, unwonted

a fremd day.

strange, weird, singular, odd, queer

A fremd man this. — Hodgson MS.

wild, untamed

stranger; guest

not akin, unrelated

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

an enmity

Strange; foreign

Turkish pronunciation

fremd

Pronunciation

/ˈfremd/ /ˈfrɛmd/

Etymology

() From Middle English fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-Germanic *framaþjaz (“foreign, not one's own”), from Proto-Indo-European *perəm-, *prom- (“forth, forward”) from *por- (“forward, through”). Cognate with Dutch vreemd (“strange, exotic”), German fremd (“strange, foreign”). More at from.