[Lexicog] suffix -dom

[Fritz Goerling]

Today I discovered in the announcement of the world championship of chess an
interesting coinage "chessdom."

I wonder how productive word formation with the suffix -dom is in modern
English, be it cases like wisdom, martyrdom, kingdom, Christendom in which
the semantic value of the suffix is not the same.

 

Fritz Goerling

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