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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">There's dogdom but no catdom. What does this say about the semantics of -dom?<br><br>--Ken<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 10/14/08, John Roberts <i><dr_john_roberts@sil.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: John Roberts <dr_john_roberts@sil.org><br>Subject: Re: [Lexicog] suffix -dom<br>To: lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<br>Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 12:24 PM<br><br><div id="yiv577804826">
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Hi Fritz,<br>
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Here's another:<br>
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<em>Suffix</em>. -<em>dom</em>. situation referred to by the first part
of the word <b>...</b> Retrieved from "<a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/">http://en.wiktionar y.org/wiki/</a>-<em>dom</em>"
:-)<br>
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The url you gave doesn't seem to work for me.<br>
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John Roberts<br>
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Fritz Goerling wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for the examples, Neal,</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I especially
like “random” and
“seldom.” </span></font><font color="navy" face="Wingdings" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: navy;">J</span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I just
discovered the following article “The
Allegedly dead suffix –dom in modern English” at</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/458952">http://www.jstor. org/pss/458952</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">princedom<br>
freedom<br>
dukedom<br>
boredom<br>
serfdom<br>
kingdom<br>
sheikhdom<br>
sheikdom<br>
officialdom<br>
thraldom<br>
seldom<br>
earldom<br>
random<br>
Christendom<br>
stardom<br>
martyrdom<br>
wisdom<br>
topsy-turvydom<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"></span></font></span></font></p>
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Neal<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbrinneman.com">http://www.ncbrinne man.com</a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Today I discovered in the
announcement of the world
championship of chess an interesting coinage “chessdom.”</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Fritz Goerling</span></font></p>
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