[Lexicog] suffix -dom

[Kenneth C. Hill]

There's dogdom but no catdom. What does this say about the semantics of -dom?

--Ken

--- On Tue, 10/14/08, John Roberts <dr_john_roberts at sil.org> wrote:
From: John Roberts <dr_john_roberts at sil.org>
Subject: Re: [Lexicog]  suffix -dom
To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 12:24 PM










    
            



Hi Fritz,



Here's another:



Suffix. -dom. situation referred to by the first part
of the word ... Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionar y.org/wiki/-dom"
:-)



The url you gave doesn't seem to work for me.



John Roberts





Fritz Goerling wrote:

  
  
  

  
  Thanks for the examples, Neal, 
     
  I especially
like “random” and
“seldom.” J 
  I just
discovered the following article “The
Allegedly dead suffix –dom in modern English” at 
  http://www.jstor. org/pss/458952 
     
     
  Fritz 
  
  
  
  princedom

freedom

dukedom

boredom

serfdom

kingdom

sheikhdom

sheikdom

officialdom

thraldom

seldom

earldom

random

Christendom

stardom

martyrdom

wisdom

topsy-turvydom 
  

Neal

  

  http://www.ncbrinne man.com 
  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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