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  • all a lie


  • λαλιά as suffix/infix, is maybe there also


  • Allah


  • alarido (Spa), big noise, powerful declamation, whose popular etymology is linked to Arabic -since it beings with 'al'-, yet some linguists as Felipe Monlau beg to differ and place the origin of the word directly from the Greek.


  • alhelí (Spa), the common name of both the 'viola odorata' and the 'cheiranthus cheiri'


  • lie (Fr) noun, f (plural lies)
 dregs (of wine, of society)

Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *liga (“silt, sediment”), from PIE *legh- (“to lie, to lay”).


  • alalia (Eng, uncountable)
   (medicine) The loss of the ability to speak, especially due to paralysis 
   of the vocal cords


  • Alalia, battle of - The naval Battle of Alalia took place between 540 BC and 535 BC off the coast of Corsica between Greeks and the allied Etruscans and Carthaginians. The Punic-Etruscan fleet of 120 ships was defeated by a Greek force of Phocean ships while emigrating to the western Mediterranean and the nearby colony of Alalia (now Aléria).


  • Fest (Ger) Adjective. From Old High German festi. Cognate to English fast (“secure”).

(comparative fester, superlative am festesten)

   firm
   compact; hard
   fixed; rigid


  • Alibech, Decameron [III ,10]


  • Alla Nazimova, the great Russian stage actress most famous for her performances of Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' and 'Hedda Gabler'