fremd
/fɹɛmd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Humorous alteration of "friend".
Example Sentences
- "a fremd day"
- "Something fremd has been going on here."
- "A fremd man this."
- "Pits it i' da fremd-man's hert."
- "[...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood."
- "The doctor went up to the bed, and said, firmly, " Miss Garnock, you must not keep Mr. Yonge any longer." "Who'll he be that comes meddling between me and my Tar?" shrieked the patient. "Mither, bid yon fremd body gang his ways. I'll no be fashed wi' him the day.""
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fremde, *framiþī, *framaþiz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɹɛmd/
- British English: /fɹɛmd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
fremder (comparative)
more fremd (comparative)
fremdest (superlative)
most fremd (superlative)
frem (alternative)
frim (alternative)
fren (alternative)
fremds (plural)