Where does “abalienate” come from?

abalienate (Italian) comes from Italian abalienare, from Latin abaliēnō, from Latin aliēnō, from Latin aliēnus, from Latin alius, from Proto-Italic aljos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂élyos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂él- — to grow, nourish.

abalienate (Italian): second-person plural present indicative of...

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  1. second-person plural present indicative of...

Ancestry of “abalienate”, step by step

abalienate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian abalienare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianabalienareto abalienate
2Latinabaliēnōto make alien from someone, alienate (from), estrange, make hostile, remove, separate
3Latinaliēnōto change the nature of a person or thing into something else
4LatinaliēnusOf that which belongs to another person, place, or object—of another, alien, foreign
5Latinaliusother, another, any other; else; different
6Proto-Italicaljosanother
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂élyosother, another
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂él-to grow, nourish

via Italian abalienato

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianabalienatopast participle of abalienare
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂él-Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂élyosEvery word from Proto-Italic aljos
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