[Lexicog] Re: -dom

[Fritz Goerling]

Hi, Margaret,

 

What do you find hard to believe? 

Christendom – Christentum

sheikhdom  - Scheichtum

etc. seem pretty clear equivalences between English and German

also cases like ‘martyrdom’/’Märtyrertum’

While ‘chessdom’ and ‘dogdom’ cannot be done in German.

I could not find any list at www.canoo.net

 

Fritz Goerling

 

2008/10/15 Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling@ <mailto:Fritz_Goerling at sil.org>
sil.org>

 

The German suffix –tum corresponds approximately to English –dom, but one
cannot use it for creative word formations like in English (chessdom,
queendom,

dogdom). 

Hi Fritz - I find that hard to believe. Here's the beginning of a list at
www.canoo.net: 

 

http://preview. <http://preview.tinyurl.com/3rg2jz> tinyurl.com/3rg2jz

Margaret

 

 

 

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