THEexpression “man” in the French language derives from “homo, hemo”, which linguists make come from Indo-European dhghmmō meaning " son of the earth ", Perfect translation ofAboriginal, the term used by Diodorus of Sicily to qualify the Ethiopian. The word “indigenous” comes from the Greek “ autókhthô Composed of autόs "Oneself" and khthốn[1] "the earth".
Diodorus of Sicily explains the birth of the first men: “It is argued that the Ethiopians are the first of all men, and the evidence is obvious. First of all, everyone being more or less in agreement that they did not come from abroad, and that they were born in the country itself, one can, with good reason, call them Autochthones; then it seems obvious to all that the men who inhabit the South [2] were probably the first to come out of the bosom of the earth. Because the heat of the sun drying the humid earth and making it suitable for the generation of animals, it is likely that the region closest to the sun was the first populated by living beings ”.