odalman
odalman noun: a man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
Noun
odalman (plural odalmen)
- A man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
- If, then, at the time of the laws we look at the class of landowners who were prominent as odalmen or haulds—typical men with wergelds originally of 100 cows—they were not only men of full kindred whose full pedigree of freedom went back the necessary nine generations, but their grandfather’s...1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 272
- Synonyms:
- hauld
Synonyms of odalman
Forms of odalman
| plural | odalmen |
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Origin of odalman
From odal + -man.
Questions about odalman
- What does odalman mean?
- Odalman means a man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
- What part of speech is odalman?
- Odalman is a noun.
- What is the plural of odalman?
- The plural of odalman is odalmen.
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