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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

-dom suffix denoting condition or state, as in freedom, wisdom state of being free, wise, passing to the sense of domain, realm, territory, as in Christendom, kingdom, and to that of experience, as in martyrdom. OE. -dōm = OS. -dōm, OHG. -tuom (G. -tum), suffixal use of OE. dōm DOOM.

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