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Translation

among other things

Word origin

A one-word calque of Latin inter alia, built from inter (among) and alie, the adverb of alia (other). Esperanto welds the two halves into a single lexicalised word, which is why it is written solid and not as inter alie.

Origin
Latin
Root
inter alia
English cognates
inter alia, alias, alien

Examples

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He spoke, among other things, about the language and about the school.

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The report shows, among other things, that prices have risen.

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We saw, among other things, a beautiful bird in the garden.

The whole thing is the word. You can see and you can see alie inside it, and both readings are honest: is the ordinary preposition "among", and alie is the -e adverb of alia, "in another way, otherwise". But alie has no page of its own on this site, and that is not an oversight - it is the point. What learners actually meet in running Esperanto is the welded whole, , in exactly the slot English uses "among other things". The parts are transparent; the meaning is fixed by convention rather than assembled fresh each time, so the lexicalised whole is the lemma and the page.

It behaves like a comment, not like a argument. drops into a sentence between commas, or leans directly on the phrase it qualifies: koston - he mentioned, among other things, the cost. It is signalling that your list is not exhaustive, which is a politer and more precise move than it looks: it tells the reader there is more, without pretending to give it.

The connector family. Aliflanke (on the other hand) is built the same way, from the same ali- root, and is the closest sibling. Around them sit cetere (besides, by the way), precipe (especially - the opposite move, narrowing rather than widening), tamen (however) and plain ankaŭ (also). Learn them as a set: they are the joints an essay turns on, and Esperanto gives you all of them for the price of a handful of roots.

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This word is part of lesson 44.