־טום

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Yiddish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German -tuom, from Old High German -tuom, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz (“-dom”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos (“thing put”). Cognate with English -dom, German -tum, Dutch -dom, Swedish -dom.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Suffix[edit]

־טום • (-tum) n

  1. A suffix used to derive abstract nouns: -dom.

See also[edit]

Yiddish terms suffixed with ־טום

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “-tum”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
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