Where does “aliene” come from?

aliene (Italian) comes from Italian aliena, from French aliéner, 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.

aliene (Italian): feminine plural of alieno; plural of aliena

Definitions

  1. feminine plural of alieno; plural of aliena

Ancestry of “aliene”, step by step

aliene traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian aliena

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianalienafeminine singular of alieno; female equivalent of...
2Frenchaliénerto alienate
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 alieno

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianalienoaverse; unwilling; alien
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂él- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂élyos →Every word from Proto-Italic aljos →