That looks like English "alive", so it's probably a good connotation for most speakers. I don't see any hidden meanings there.
I've also studied a number of other languages (to widely different degrees of ability!), and it isn't obviously anything bad in those either. But I might not know colloquial/slang words that are similar!
Just based on the structure of the word, it seems very English. It doesn't look like a word that would be found in German, for example. Something like that might be found in a Romance language (Spanish, French, etc. -- and it isn't too different from the Latin word alius 'other' but that isn't commonly used in the modern Romance languages I don't think). Part of the word might be similar to some other language, of course.
Hope that helps some.
