English

ethnopedology

From ethno- + pedology.

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

Proto-Indo-European *ped- ‘to walk, to step’

Proto-Indo-European *pedóm

Ancient Greek πέδον ‘ground, earth’

Today it means

noun The study of local (indigenous) knowledge of soils

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

Etymograph / ethnopedology