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    Oh, this thread is getting more and more interesting...
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    I didn't know that you did the names in EB,though you did a good job...though there's a slight problem,when you annex a settlement,one of the option includes 'Þrældömi' actually meaning 'slavery' though Germanic tribes didn't use slavery until the Barbarian invasion(and E.B is way before that era).
    So I'm only asking...why did you put this more than particular word?
    I could also talk about it's etymology...it comes from 'Þråll' meaning slave(wich was the most terrible insult for any Germanic tribesman!) and dömi...that has no REAL english translation.
    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".

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    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...

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    Oh, cool! Could you be so kind and give me a brief overview of its etymological developpement?
    Unfortunatly, I don't posess a swedish etymological dictionairy...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ziegenpeter View Post
    Oh, cool! Could you be so kind and give me a brief overview of its etymological developpement?
    Unfortunatly, I don't posess a swedish etymological dictionairy...
    IT COMOES FROM Dómi in old norse...simple as that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Viking_Wårlord View Post
    IT COMOES FROM Dómi in old norse
    Meaning...?

    @Kuningaz: Wait till I got home and I give you some titles... oh wait whats your mother tongue?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ziegenpeter View Post
    Meaning...?

    @Kuningaz: Wait till I got home and I give you some titles... oh wait whats your mother tongue?
    It can mean 'prevailance'(for example,heathendom=holyness' prevailance) but can also mean 'time'...
    My mother tongue is Danish...

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