alheio

From Old Portuguese allẽo, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else, later exotic, foreign”), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

Cognate with Galician alleo, Spanish ajeno and Catalan aliè.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ˈʎej.u/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ˈʎɐj.u/, /ɐ.ˈʎej.u/
• Hyphenation: a‧lhei‧o

alheio m (feminine singular alheia, masculine plural alheios, feminine plural alheias, comparable)

1. someone else’s, that belongs to someone else
2. alien
3. distracted
4. (with preposition a) indifferent [to]
5. (with preposition a) unknowing, unaware [of]

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:alheio.

• alhear

alheio m (plural alheios)

1. alien

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:alheio.