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-dom
abstract suffix of state, from Old English
dom
"statute, judgment" (see
doom
(n.)). Already active as a suffix in Old English (e.g.
freodom
,
wisdom
); from stem
*do-
"do" +
*-moz
abstract suffix. Cf. cognate German
-tum
, Old High German
tuom
.
