ricedom
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *rīkijadōmaz (“power, wealth”), equivalent to rīċe + -dōm.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrīċedōm m (nominative plural rīċedōmas)
Declension
editDeclension of ricedom (strong a-stem)
Descendants
edit- Middle English: richedom, ricche-dom, riche-dom
- >? English: richdom (probably calqued from continental West Germanic)
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rícedóm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.