köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διατροφή (diatrophḗ). By surface analysis, δια- (dia-) + τροφή (trofí). For sense "alimony", semantic loan from French pension alimentaire.
köken: Plural of obsolete alimentum, aliment (“nourishment”), from Latin alimentum. Noun sense 1 is a semantic loan from German Alimente or French aliments. First attested in 1578.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit किरिआण n (kiriāṇa, “goods for sale”), from Sanskrit क्रयाणक (krayāṇaka, “goods for sale”), from the root क्री (krī, “to buy”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷreyh₂- (“to buy”). Related to क्रय (kray) and कीनना (kīnnā).
köken: Etymology tree Latin alō Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *-monyomder. Latin -mōnium Latin -mōnia Latin alimōnia From alō (“to nourish”, or a related adjectival root) + -mōnia.
köken: From oil (“to nourish”) + -únas, a calque of Latin alimōnia, with alteration of the initial o to a to match the Latin word as well as English alimony. A new formation, as the word does not appear in texts or dictionaries before the mid-20th century.