Etymology

fremd

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Today it means: Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar. Full definition →

Middle English fremde ← Old English fremde ← Proto-West Germanic *framiþī
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*framaþiz“foreign, not one's own”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*framiþī
  3. Old English · inherited fromfremde
  4. Middle English · inherited fromfremde
  5. English todayfremd

From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”). Cognate with Scots fremmit, frempt (“fremd”), West Frisian frjemd (“strange, fremd”), Dutch vreemd (“strange, foreign”), German fremd (“fremd, strange, foreign”), Swedish främmande (“foreign, outlandish, strange”). More at from.

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