alheio

Portuguese

/a.ˈʎej.u/, /ɐ.ˈʎɐj.u/

adj
Definitions
  • someone else’s, that belongs to someone else
  • alien
  • distracted
  • (with preposition a) indifferent [to]
  • (with preposition a) unknowing, unaware [of]

Etymology

Inherited from Old Portuguese allẽo inherited from Latin aliēnus (foreign, later exotic, belonging to someone else, alien) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (other, out of a group of more than two).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₂élyos

Gloss

other, out of a group of more than two

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