Dec. 17th, 2007

fremd

Dec. 17th, 2007 07:29 am
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fremd - adj., strange, foreign.


Also spelled fremed. Still in some use in Scotland, but in English lands, it went out of use some time after Chaucer. From Old English, and a cognate of German fremd.

---L.
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