English Explanatory Dictionary

Bodin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from French.
  2. An unknown-gender given name.

Word forms

Bodin Bodins

Etymology

* As an English and French surname of Norman origin, from Old French Bodin, a pet form of Bodo, borrowed from Germanic names containing the element *budô (“messenger”). Compare Beaudin. * As a Swedish surname, from the noun bod (“small hut”), compare Bodeen, Boden. * As a German surname, related to sense 1 above, and also from the place Boddin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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