autochthon

1. 1.

   the earliest known inhabitants of a region

   Broaderprimitive

Other forms of autochthon

plural

autochthones

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about autochthon

What does autochthon mean?

autochthon means "the earliest known inhabitants of a region".

How many syllables are in autochthon?

autochthon has 3 syllables and divides as au-toch-thon under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.