alyus n English Excuse for not having done something. Example sentence Tagbanwa Iyan bay alyus ya, may piyánawan ya kunu'. Yay ega íkiya'asítu ya kat'apun. English His excuse was that he said he went somewhere. Thatś why he couldn't come yesterday. v Affixes mag-*, m-, i-, -an English To make excuses to get out of doing something. Example sentence Tagbanwa Basta iyáng taw, magka'rut bayán malyus. English That fellow really knows how to make excuses. See alsoku'mul See alsoda'awa Overlapping synonym ligwat