fremd
pronunciation
How to pronounce fremd in British English:
UK [f'remd]
How to pronounce fremd in American English:
US [f'remd]
Word Origin
- fremd (adj.)
- Northern English and Scottish survival of Middle English fremed "foreign; remote; unfamiliar; not related; unheard-of; unfriendly, distant and formal;" as a noun, "a stranger," from Old English fremde (Northumbrian fremþe); cognate with Old Saxon fremithi, Old Frisian fremed, Dutch vreemd, Old High German framidi, German fremd, Gothic framaþs "strange, foreign."