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