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Odd

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means strange or unusual, or not divisible evenly by two
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Stage 1 of 2
oddi
Old Norse · medieval
"an unpaired point, a triangle"
a point, a triangle, or a number left unpaired
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Stage 2 of 2
odd
English · 1300s
"not part of a pair, or strange"
settled as the English word for an unmatched number, later anything strange
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