ElCruscaio ha scritto: ↑sab, 08 apr 2023 15:23
[...] come
reame,
bestiame e altri nomi collettivi.
Solo per precisione, per non essere frainteso: avevo scritto che l'
-ame con valore collettivo coincide, esteriormente, con la terminazione di
reame: non intendevo che
reame avesse valore collettivo (
reame ≠ 'il complesso dei re'); infatti la sua etimologia è
un'altra. Forse non ero stato chiarissimo...
Infarinato ha scritto: ↑dom, 09 apr 2023 16:04
[...] di per sé
-dom non vuol dire né «mondo» né «universo» né «reame» né «regno».
Però sembra aver acquisito tale significato, almeno in senso figurato, piuttosto stabilmente;
OED, sottolineatura mia:
Abstract suffix of state, which has grown out of an independent noun, originally putting, setting, position, statute, Old High German tuom, position, condition, dignity, in Old English dóm, statute, judgement, jurisdiction, < stem dô- of ᴅᴏ v. + abstract suffix -moz, Old English -m, as in hel-m, sea-m, strea-m, etc. Frequent already in Old English as a suffix to nouns and adjectives, as biscopdóm the dignity of a bishop, cyningdóm, cynedóm, royal or kingly dominion, kingdom, ealdordóm the position or jurisdiction of an elder or lord; þeowdóm, the condition of a þeow or slave; fréodóm, háligdóm, wisdóm the condition or fact of being free, holy, or wise. The number of these derivatives has increased in later times, and -dom is now a living suffix, freely employed to form nonce-derivatives, not only with the sense of ‘condition, state, dignity’, but also with that of ‘domain, realm’ (figurative). See in their alphabetical places alderdom, Anglo-Saxondom, boredom, Christendom, cuckoldom, dukedom, earldom, freedom, kingdom, martyrdom, popedom, sheriffdom, thraldom, wisdom, etc. Examples of nonce-words appear in the quotations.
