fremd
fremd · fremds
Humorous alteration of "friend"Humorous alteration of "friend".
/fɹɛmd/
Meaning
3 senses(dialectal, rare)A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.
(Internet, childish)Humorous alteration of "friend".
(archaic, obsolete)An enmity.
Origin
From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremedeFrom 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”).
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