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alheio.

someone else’s, that belongs to someone else

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

adj/aˈʎej.u/Brazil[aˈʎeɪ̯.u]Brazil/ɐˈʎɐj.u/Portugal/ɐˈʎej.u/Northern, Portugal
  1. someone else’s, that belongs to someone else

    Não mexa nas coisas alheias.
  2. alien, foreign

    Uma terra alheia.
  3. distracted

  4. indifferent

  5. unknowing, unaware

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alhẽo, from Latin aliēnus ("belonging to someone else", later "exotic, foreign"), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Compare Galician alleo, Spanish ajeno. Doublet of alien.

noun/aˈʎej.u/Brazil[aˈʎeɪ̯.u]Brazil/ɐˈʎɐj.u/Portugal/ɐˈʎej.u/Northern, Portugal
  1. alien

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alhẽo, from Latin aliēnus ("belonging to someone else", later "exotic, foreign"), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Compare Galician alleo, Spanish ajeno. Doublet of alien.

verb/aˈʎej.u/Brazil[aˈʎeɪ̯.u]Brazil/ɐˈʎɐj.u/Portugal/ɐˈʎej.u/Northern, Portugal
  1. first-person singular present indicative of alhear

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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