Fremd vs Frem - What's the difference?
fremd | frem |
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant.
* 1873 , Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine:
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Not akin; unrelated.
* 1875 , John Howard Nodal, George Milner, A glossary of the Lancashire dialect :
* 1851 , Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside :
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Out of the ordinary; unusual; unwonted.
(rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Strange; weird; outlandish; singular; odd; queer.
(archaic, or, obsolete) Wild; untamed.
As adjectives the difference between fremd and frem
is that fremd is (rare|or|chiefly dialectal) strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant while frem is .As a noun fremd
is (rare|or|chiefly dialectal) stranger; guest.fremd
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l), (l) (Scottish)Adjective
(en-adj)- [...] and if I'm to be no more hereafter to them that belong to me, than to legions of strange angels, or a whole nation of fremd folk !
- Thus, a person living with a family to whom he is not related is termed "a fremd' body." If it were asked, "Is he akin to you?" the answer would be, "Nawe, he's ' fremd ," i.e. "he's one of us, but not a relation."
- [...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood.
- a fremd day
- A fremd man this. — Hodgson MS.