An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/fremd
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fremd, adj., ‘strange, foreign, unfamiliar, peculiar,’ from MidHG. vręmede, vręmde, ‘foreign, distant, strange, singular, rare,’ OHG. framadi, fręmidi, ‘foreign, singular’; a common Teut. adj. for ‘foreign,’ unknown only to Scand.; comp. Goth. framaþs, ‘foreign, estranged, excluded from,’ AS. fręmþe, fręmde, ‘foreign, alien, estranged’ (E. obsolete), OSax. fręmithi, Du. vreemd. A derivative of the stem appearing in the Goth. prep. fram, ‘far from,’ AS. and E. from, OHG. fram, adv., ‘away, forward.’