() 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.