fremde

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fremde

1. inflection of fremd:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

• fremede, fremed, fremmed, frempt, fremmid, fremmede, freomede, ffremyd, fremd

From Old English fremde, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɛmd(ə)/, /ˈfrɛmɛd(ə)/, /ˈfrɛmpt(ə)/

fremde

1. foreign (from another country)
2. strange (out of the ordinary)
3. unrelated (not related by kinship)
4. hostile, unfriendly

• English: fremd (rare, chiefly dialectal)
• Scots: fremmit, fremd, frempt, frem

• “fremed, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.

• fremede, fremeþe

From Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþijaz, from Proto-Germanic *fram- (related to from). Cognates include Old Saxon fremithi, Dutch vreemd, Old High German fremidi (whence German fremd), and Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌸𐍃 (framaþs).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrem.de/

fremde (comparative fremdra, superlative fremdest)

1. strange
2. foreign
   • c. 893, King Alfred's Doom Book

     Iċ eom Dryhten þīn god. Iċ þē ūt ġelǣdde of Egypta lande and of heora þēowdōme. Ne lufa þū ōðru fremdu godu ofer mē.

     I am the Lord your God. I led you out of slavery in Egypt. Don't love other foreign gods over me.

3. (substantive) a stranger

• āfremdan
• āfremdung

• Middle English: fremde, fremede, fremed, fremmed, frempt, fremmid, fremmede, freomede, ffremyd, fremd
  • English: fremd (rare, chiefly dialectal)
  • Scots: fremmit, fremd, frempt, frem