autochthony
noun (rare; no plural used)
Everyday
The idea that a people has always lived in its own land, or that they came out of the earth there; a rare word from learned writing. tree →
In the lessons
in old tales and learned books, an old theory that the first people sprang from the soil of their own land.
Examples
- The old theory of autochthony was dropped. tree →
- Some tales say the first people came out of the earth, an idea called autochthony. tree →
- Autochthony comes from Greek words meaning self and earth. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «autochthony» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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