alheio – Portuguese adjective declension

Portuguese adjective forms of alheio

Adjective: alheio

Hyphenation:
Singular m.alheio
Singular f.alheia
Plural m.alheios
Plural f.alheias

Sample Sentences

  • Não mexa nas coisas alheias. (Don't touch other people's stuff.)
  • Uma terra alheia. (A foreign land.)

Etymology

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. See: Latin Adjectives 'aliēnus', Galician Adjectives 'alleo', Spanish Adjectives 'ajeno'.

Verbs referencing "alheio"

Spanish Adjectives ajeno, Galician Adjectives alleo.

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