odalborn

English

Etymology

From odal +‎ born.

Adjective

odalborn (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Inheriting land by odal.
    • 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 271:
      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.
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