The story
- Old French · derived fromsoudan“sultan”
- English todaySoden
From Old French soudan (“sultan”), a nickname for someone who behaved in an outlandish and autocratic manner or for someone who had played the part of a sultan in a pageant.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchsoudan all →
soldan
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.