odal

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Icelandic óðal (“estate”). Cognate with Norwegian odel, odal (“allodium, patrimony”), Old English ēþel (“homeland”). Compare athel, Odelsthing. ==== Alternative forms ==== Odal, udal, othala ==== Noun ==== odal (countable and uncountable, plural odals) (law, historical) 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. The ownership and claim of such land. A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land. ===== Usage notes ===== The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance, etc., and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal. ==== Adjective ==== odal (not comparable) Of or relating to odal land. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== See also ===== ᛟ (a rune associated with odal) === Etymology 2 === From ode +‎ -al. ==== Adjective ==== odal (not comparable) (poetry, music) Of or relating to an ode or odes. === Etymology 3 === Borrowed from Tamil [Term?]. ==== Noun ==== odal (obsolete, often capitalized) A large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil. ===== Alternative forms ===== Odal, adul ===== Derived terms ===== odal oil === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors ((Can we date this quote?)), “odal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === LADO, load, alod, -adol-, -adol, Aldo == Estonian == === Noun === odal adessive singular of oda == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Alternative forms === odal n (1567) === Etymology === From Old Norse óðal, from Proto-Germanic *ōþalą. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic óðal. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /²uː(d)al/ (Hardanger, Voss) IPA(key): [²ou̞ːdɐ̞l] (Telemark) IPA(key): [²oːɐ̞l], [²u̞ːɐ̞l] === Noun === odal m (definite singular odalen, indefinite plural odalar, definite plural odalane) (nonstandard or dialectal) alternative form of odel (“land with odalsrett; property”) ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “odel” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring