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odalborn

odalborn adjective: inheriting land by odal.

Adjective

odalborn (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Inheriting land by odal.
    • The odalborn man inherits land from his grandfather’s grandfather. The son of an odalman who claims odal as odal by inheritance counts four or five forefathers who had the land before him.1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 271

Origin of odalborn

From odal + born.

Questions about odalborn

What does odalborn mean?
Odalborn means inheriting land by odal.
What part of speech is odalborn?
Odalborn is an adjective.

Words near odalborn in the dictionary

  1. Odagiri effect
  2. Odagiri effects
  3. odah
  4. odahs
  5. odal
  6. odalborn
  7. odalique
  8. odaliques
  9. odalisk
  10. odalisks
  11. odalism

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