oddr

See also: Oddr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“pointing upward”), whence also Old English ord, Old High German ort, from Proto-Indo-European *uzdho

Noun

oddr m

sharp point

Derived terms

Oddr

Descendants

Icelandic: oddur
Faroese: oddur
Old Swedish: udder, odder
- Swedish: udd
Danish: od
→ Middle English: od, odde
- Scots: odd, od, ode
- English: odd

References

oddr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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