fremd
adjective
ˈfremd
1
now chiefly Scottish : foreign, unfamiliar
2
now chiefly Scottish : not belonging to one's own family or household : unrelated
fremdly adverb
fremdness noun
plural -es
Word History
Etymology
Middle English fremd, fremde, from Old English fremde; akin to Old High German fremidi, framadi strange, Gothic framatheis strange, belonging to someone else, alienated; all from a prehistoric East Germanic-West Germanic adjective derived from a word represented by Old English fram from, away