Where does “inalienabile” come from?
inalienabile (Italian) comes from Italian alienabile, from Italian alienare, 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.
inalienabile (Italian): inalienable
Definitions
- inalienable
Ancestry of “inalienabile”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | alienabile | alienable |
| 2 | Italian | alienare | to alienate |
| 3 | Latin | aliēnō | to change the nature of a person or thing into something else |
| 4 | Latin | aliēnus | Of that which belongs to another person, place, or object—of another, alien, foreign |
| 5 | Latin | alius | other, another, any other; else; different |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | aljos | another |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂élyos | other, another |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂él- | to grow, nourish |