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odal en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From Icelandic óðal (“estate”). Cognate with Norwegian odel, odal (“allodium, patrimony”), Old English ēþel (“homeland”). Compare athel, Odelsthing.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to odal land.

Forms

Deriveds

odaller · odalborn · odalism · odalman

Relateds

ᛟ

odal en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Icelandic óðal (“estate”). Cognate with Norwegian odel, odal (“allodium, patrimony”), Old English ēþel (“homeland”). Compare athel, Odelsthing.

Meanings

1. (countable, historical, uncountable) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.
   • At the time of the laws owners of odal had, it appears, certain powers of selling their odal, but even then it was not an uncontrolled right of a man to do what he would with his own. 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 273:
2. (countable, uncountable) The ownership and claim of such land.
   • Generations of ancestors may have given an extended family the right to the land, in the same way that later Norse settlers obtained an odal right to the land they farmed. 2000, Liv Kjørsvik Schei, The Islands of Orkney, Colin Baxter, →ISBN, page 15:
3. (countable, uncountable) A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land.

Forms

odal en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From ode + -al.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to an ode or odes.
   • But what’s clear from the extraordinary proliferation of contemporary lyric odes, and the reactions to the ecstatic claims of these odes, is that the question of poetry, sociality, and globality has become unavoidable: contemporary poetry, which has long resisted incorporation into the discourse of globalization, must be understood on a global, and odal, scale. 2016, Walt Hunter, “Planetary Dejection: An Ode to the Commons”, in Symploke, volume 24, numbers 1–2, page 227:

odal en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil [Term?].

Meanings

1. (capitalized, obsolete, often) A large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil.
   • Extract the oil from the seeds of Odal (Sarcostigma kleinii) and apply on the affected part of the body. 1998, K. Jose Boban, Tribal Ethnomedicine: Continuity and Change, page 235:

Forms

Deriveds

odal oil