Noun: dom
Gender:
Sample Sentences
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late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
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Ne sċeall nān godes þeġn for sċeattum riht dēman, ac healdan þone dōm ġif godes man sȳ... (Nor shall one of God's servants decide a law for wealth, but maintain the judgement if he is a man of God...)
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Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric
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Þis syndon þā dōmas ðe Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, asetton. Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, ēcton þā ǣ, þā ðe heora aldoras ǣr ġeworhten, ðyssum dōmum þe hȳr efter sæġeþ. (These are the laws that Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, laid down. Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, added these laws listed hereafter to the laws their ancestors created.)
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Dagas sind ġewitene, ealle onmedlan eorþan rīċes; nǣron nū cyningas ne cāseras ne goldġiefan swylċe iū wǣron, þonne hī mǣst mid him mǣrþa ġefremedon ond on dryhtlīċestum dōme lifdon. (The days are gone, whole sheens of Earth’s kingdom; kings were not now, nor emperors, nor gold-givers as once were when they fulfilled most of honors amongst 'emselves and lived in the lordliest glory.) [10th century, The Seafarer:]
Nouns inflected like dom
cyningdom,
martyrdom,
campdom,
cynedom,
dom,
wom,
abboddom,
abbuddom,
ealdordom,
mindom,
swicdom,
grom,
glom,
brom,
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *dōm.
2. Cognate with Old Frisian dōm, Old Saxon dōm, Old High German tuom, Old Norse dómr, Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms). The Germanic source was from a stem verb originally meaning ‘to place, to set’ (a sense-development also found in Latin statutum, Ancient Greek θέμις (thémis)). See: Old Norse Nouns '
dómr', Gothic Nouns '
𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃'.
Verbs referencing "dom"
English Nouns
doomsday.
Translations