English

ethnobiology

From ethno- + biology.

Ancient Greek ἔθνος ‘a company, later a people, nation’

Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- ‘to live’

Ancient Greek βίος ‘life’

New Latin biologia ‘biology’

Today it means

noun The study of the relationships between plants and animals and human cultures

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / ethnobiology