fremd

Meanings

1. Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
2. Not kin, unrelated; foreign.
3. Wild; untamed.

1. A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.
2. An enmity.

1. Humorous alteration of "friend".

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.