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-dom

suffix
/-dəm/US/-dɒm/UK/-dɑm/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-West Germanic *-dōm Old English -dōm Middle English -dom English -dom From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz. Cognate with Scots -dom (“-dom”), North Frisian -dom (“-dom”), West Frisian -dom (“-dom”), Dutch -dom (“-dom”), Low German -dom (“-dom”), German -tum (“-dom”), Danish -dom (“-dom”) -dømme (“-dom”), Swedish -dom (“-dom”) -döme (“-dom”), Norwegian -dom (“-dom”), Icelandic -dómur (“-dom”), Norwegian Bokmål -dømme, Norwegian Nynorsk -døme. Same as Old English dōm (“doom, judgment, sentence, condemnation, ordeal, judicial sentence, decree, ordinance, law, custom; justice, equity; direction, ruling, governing, command; might, power, supremacy, majesty, glory, magnificence, splendor, reputation, honor, praise, dignity, authority; state, condition”). No relation to English domain or dominion. More at doom.

  1. derived from *-dōmaz✻
  2. inherited from *-dōm✻
  3. inherited from -dōm — “-dom: state, condition, power, authority, property, right, office, quality”
  4. inherited from -dom

Definitions

  1. Forms nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word.

    • boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom

  2. Forms nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the root word.

    • Christendom, fiefdom, kingdom, Saxondom

  3. Forms nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.

    • catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom
    • It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Forms nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.

      • Potterdom, stfdom

    2. Forms uncountable nouns denoting a type of domination.

    3. Forms countable nouns denoting a type of dominator.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -dom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA