"dom" meaning in Old English

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Noun

IPA: /doːm/
Rhymes: -oːm Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *dōm. 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 statūtum, Ancient Greek θέμις (thémis)). Etymology templates: {{root|ang|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}}, {{dercat|ang|gem-pro|ine-pro}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*dōm}} Proto-West Germanic *dōm, {{cog|ofs|dōm}} Old Frisian dōm, {{cog|osx|dōm}} Old Saxon dōm, {{cog|goh|tuom}} Old High German tuom, {{cog|non|dómr}} Old Norse dómr, {{cog|got|𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃}} Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms), {{noncog|la|statūtum}} Latin statūtum, {{noncog|grc|θέμις}} Ancient Greek θέμις (thémis) Head templates: {{ang-noun|m|head=dōm}} dōm m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|dōm}}, {{ang-decl-noun|dōm|dōmas|dōm|dōmas|dōmes|dōma|dōme|dōmum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: dōm [canonical, masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], dōm [nominative, singular], dōmas [nominative, plural], dōm [accusative, singular], dōmas [accusative, plural], dōmes [genitive, singular], dōma [genitive, plural], dōme [dative, singular], dōmum [dative, plural], ᛞᚩᛗ [alternative]
  1. judgment
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-noun-JRNTJbih
  2. sentence
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-noun-ghEZ15r4
  3. law, statute Synonyms: ǣ
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-noun-j2gXO67G Categories (other): Law Disambiguation of Law: 31 0 67 1 0 0 0 1
  4. jurisdiction
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-noun-vNOoiEAf
  5. discernment, discretion
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-noun-GfGD8QdU
  6. sway, majesty, power, might
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-noun-UQK1IW6I
  7. fame, repute
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-noun-jEoeImAR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dēman, -dōm
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /doːm/ Forms: dōm [canonical], ᛞᚩᛗ [alternative]
Rhymes: -oːm Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *dōmi, first-person singular of *dōną (“to do”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*dōmi}} Proto-Germanic *dōmi Head templates: {{head|ang|verb form|head=dōm}} dōm
  1. first-person singular present indicative of doan Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular Form of: doan
    Sense id: en-dom-ang-verb-n9-rP6Z~ Categories (other): Pages with 35 entries, Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 35 entries: 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 6 3 0 2 0 1 6 1 0 0 0 3 2 2 2 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 6 2 2 0 6 6 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 3 2 4 5 2 8 6 70
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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          "english": "Nor shall one of God's servants decide a law for wealth, but maintain the judgement if he is a man of God...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints\nNe sċeall nān godes þeġn for sċeattum riht dēman, ac healdan þone dōm ġif godes man sȳ...",
          "translation": "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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          "english": "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.",
          "text": "Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric\nÞis 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.",
          "translation": "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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      "synonyms": [
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              45,
              48
            ]
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              43,
              48
            ]
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          "english": "But I should hide from any of men a secret might of worthy craft, a road of mine. Say what I am.",
          "ref": "c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 83:",
          "text": "Ac iċ mīþan sċeal monna ġehwylċum dēgolfulne dōm dȳran cræftes, sīðfæt mīnne. Saga hwæt iċ hātte.",
          "translation": "But I should hide from any of men a secret might of worthy craft, a road of mine. Say what I am.",
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          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              170,
              174
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              195,
              200
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          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "10th century, The Seafarer:",
          "text": "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "ipa": "/doːm/"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-oːm"
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        "1": "osx",
        "2": "dōm"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon dōm",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "tuom"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German tuom",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "dómr"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse dómr",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "statūtum"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin statūtum",
      "name": "noncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "θέμις"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek θέμις (thémis)",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *dōm.\nCognate 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 statūtum, Ancient Greek θέμις (thémis)).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dōm",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōm",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōm",
          "dom#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōmas",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōmas",
          "domas#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōm",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōm",
          "dom#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōmas",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōmas",
          "domas#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōmes",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōmes",
          "domes#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōma",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōma",
          "doma#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōme",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōme",
          "dome#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōmum",
      "links": [
        [
          "dōmum",
          "domum#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᛞᚩᛗ",
      "roman": "dóm",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "head": "dōm"
      },
      "expansion": "dōm m",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dōm"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dōm",
        "2": "dōmas",
        "3": "dōm",
        "4": "dōmas",
        "5": "dōmes",
        "6": "dōma",
        "7": "dōme",
        "8": "dōmum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dēman"
    },
    {
      "word": "-dōm"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Nor shall one of God's servants decide a law for wealth, but maintain the judgement if he is a man of God...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints\nNe sċeall nān godes þeġn for sċeattum riht dēman, ac healdan þone dōm ġif godes man sȳ...",
          "translation": "Nor shall one of God's servants decide a law for wealth, but maintain the judgement if he is a man of God...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "judgment"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "judgment",
          "judgment"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sentence"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.",
          "text": "Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric\nÞis 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.",
          "translation": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "law, statute"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "statute",
          "statute"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ǣ"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "jurisdiction"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jurisdiction",
          "jurisdiction"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "discernment, discretion"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discernment",
          "discernment"
        ],
        [
          "discretion",
          "discretion"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              45,
              48
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              43,
              48
            ]
          ],
          "english": "But I should hide from any of men a secret might of worthy craft, a road of mine. Say what I am.",
          "ref": "c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 83:",
          "text": "Ac iċ mīþan sċeal monna ġehwylċum dēgolfulne dōm dȳran cræftes, sīðfæt mīnne. Saga hwæt iċ hātte.",
          "translation": "But I should hide from any of men a secret might of worthy craft, a road of mine. Say what I am.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sway, majesty, power, might"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sway",
          "sway"
        ],
        [
          "majesty",
          "majesty"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
        [
          "might",
          "might"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              170,
              174
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              195,
              200
            ]
          ],
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "10th century, The Seafarer:",
          "text": "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fame, repute"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fame",
          "fame"
        ],
        [
          "repute",
          "repute"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/doːm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oːm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dom"
}

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  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*dōmi"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *dōmi",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *dōmi, first-person singular of *dōną (“to do”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dōm",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᛞᚩᛗ",
      "roman": "dóm",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "verb form",
        "head": "dōm"
      },
      "expansion": "dōm",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "doan"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "first-person singular present indicative of doan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "doan",
          "doan#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/doːm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oːm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dom"
}

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