Quote Originally Posted by ziegenpeter View Post
Oh, this thread is getting more and more interesting...


I'd say its a suffix discribing the concept witch links all the individaul parts of this concept and what they have in common. Like "-hood" in "brotherhood" or "-ry" in "slavery".

I wonder if it has a common etymology with "dom", which I know from swedish, meaning "arbitration".
Yeah,but -ry doesn't give a valuable translation in english,that's what I think,and by the way,it is related with the swedish dom...