The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*seuþaną“to seethe; boil”
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sudanaz
- Old English · inherited fromsoden
- Middle English · inherited fromsodden
- English todaysodden
From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden (“seethed, boiled”) (related to Dutch zode (“swampy land”)), Low German saden, söddt, German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*seuþaną all →
seethe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.