The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄλλος“other”
- English todayallochthonous
From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + χθών (khthṓn, “earth, ground”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄλλος all →
allergyallosaurusallochlorophyllallocrineallodoxaphobiaallopatryallophylicalloscutumallostasisallotrope
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.