Etymograph

English

Isoko

Isoko comes from Edo isoko ‘outskirts, environs’.

  1. Edomodernisoko‘outskirts, environs’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1913Isoko

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Edomodernisoko‘outskirts, environs’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1913Isoko

Earliest quotation: 1913, Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal: “As far as I can tell it was due…”

Today it means

noun A member of an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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

Etymograph / Edo isoko / Isoko