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# autochthony

noun (rare; no plural used)

«autochthony» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#x1)
- Some tales say the first people came out of the earth, an idea called autochthony. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#x2)
- Autochthony comes from Greek words meaning self and earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «autochthony» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«autochthony» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/autochthony.html) on Mova free.