The story
- Edo · borrowed fromisoko“outskirts, environs”
- English todayIsoko
Borrowed from Edo isoko (“outskirts, environs”), referring to the fact that some of the predecessors of the Isoko migrated from the Kingdom of Benin to modern-day Isokoland, and thus the name represented those who lived on the outskirts of the Benin Empire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.