alien
Middle English
/aːliˈɛːn/, /ˈaːliant/
noun
Definitions
- An outsider or foreign person, especially one who is resident in one's nation.
- One who is alien in some other way e.g. religion, family
- (rare) An unlawful occupier or possessor of land.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French alien derived from Latin aliēnus (foreign, later exotic, belonging to someone else, alien).
Origin
Latin
aliēnus
Gloss
foreign, later exotic, belonging to someone else, alien
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Property
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Alien Day English
- alien English
- alienability English
- alienable English
- alienage English
- alienee English
- alienesque English
- alienisation English
- alienish English
- alienism English
- alienize English
- alienkind English
- alienlike English
- alienly English
- alienness English
- alienologist English
- alienship English
- antialien English
- nonalien English
- alieniloquium Latin
- alieno Latin
- alius Latin
- aliēnus Latin
- Alien German
- alieno Italian
- alien Dutch, Flemish
- ajeno Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂élyos Proto-Indo-European
- alien Portuguese
- エイリアン Japanese
- aliene Middle English
- alyen Middle English
- alyon Middle English
- alien Old French
- aliè Catalan, Valencian
- allẽo Old Portuguese
- ayenu Asturian
- ajeno Ladino
- allenu Sardinian
- anzenu Sardinian