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Domesday (W3)
Engl. "doomsday", älter "domesday", steht für dt. "der Jüngste Tag", zu engl. "doom" = dt. "Schicksal", "Untergang", "Vernichtung". Vor dem 16. Jh. traf man engl. "doom" bzw. altengl. "dom" in der Bedeutung dt. "Gesetz", "Urteil ", "Verurteilung" an.
Dieses engl. "doom" scheint zunächst recht isoliert zu sein. Beim Blick übern Tellerrand stößt man jedoch auf eine recht große Wortfamilie. Zunächst einmal findet man lat. "damnare" = dt. "büßen lassen", "verurteilen", "verwerfen" mit dem auch dt. "verdammen" verwandt ist.
Im weiteren Umfeld stößt man auf mhdt., althd. "tuom" = dt. "Verhältnis", "Zustand", altsächs., altfrz. "dom" = dt. "Urteil" ("Festgesetztes", "Festgelegtes"), "Gericht", "Ruhm", got. "doms" = dt. "Urteil", "Ruhm", altnord. "domr" = dt. "Urteil", "Gericht", und schließlich auf ein germ. "*doma" = dt. "Setzung", "Zustand".
Als Wurzel wird schließlich ide. "*dhe-" = dt. "setzen", "stellen", "legen" postuliert. Von da führen dann Spuren zu griech. "thomos" = dt. "Stapel", "Haufen", (Zusammengesetztes"), lit. "dome" = dt. "Aufmerksamkeit", altind. "dhama" = dt. "Sitz", "Gesetz", griech. "themis" = dt. "Sitte", "Gesetz", "Recht".
Von griech.-lat. "thésis" = dt. "Setzen, "Aufstellen", "aufgestellter Satz", "Behauptung" führt ein direkter Weg zu dt. "These" (16. Jh.) = dt. "aufgestellter Lehrsatz", "Leitsatz", "zu beweisende Behauptung".
Auch das etwas vernachlässigte dt. "tun" hat seine Wurzel in ide. "*dhe-", "*dhehi-" = dt. "setzen", "stellen", "legen". Und damit schließt sich ein weiterer großer Familienzweig an, mit. dt. "abtun", "antun", "auftun", "dartun", "dazutun", "genugtun", "gleichtun", "großtun", "guttun", "heimlichtun", "hervortun", "hineintun", "hintun", "hinzutun", "kundtun", "leichttun", "Nichtstun", "schöntun", "schwertun", "umtun", "vertun", "wegtun", "wiedertun", "wohltun", "zuammentun", "zurücktun", "zutun", und sicherlich können Sie noch einige Beispiele hinzutun.
Einen sehr großen Familienzuwachs bringen die Suffixe dt. "-tum", mit Wörtern wie dt. "Heiligtum", "Irrtum", "Kaisertum", "Königtum", "Reichtum", "Wachstum", auch das "schlecht zusammengestzte" "Ungetüm", und engl. "-dom", mit engl. "boredom", "freedom", "kingdom", "martyrdom", "wisdom", ein.
Nicht "offiziell", aber naheliegend scheint mir auch ein Zusammenhang zur postulierten Wurzel ide. "*dem-" = dt. "bauen", "zusammenfügen", und damit dem dt. "Dom" und lat. "domus" = dt. "Haus", und das man auch als "Zusammengesetztes" interpretieren könnte.
Lit.:
- Darby, H., Domesday England, 1978;
- Domesday names, compiled by Keats-Rohan, K. u. a., 1997;
- Keats-Rohan, K., Domesday Descendants, 2002;
- Keats-Rohan, K., Domesday People, 1999;
- Roffe, D., Decoding Domesday, 2007
- Roffe, D., Domesday, 2000;
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Exeter Domesday.
A record containing a description of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall; published by Sir Henry Ellis (in 1816) as a Supplement to the "Great Domesday-Book" (q.v.). Called "Exon", either because it was at one time kept among the muniments of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, or because the "Bishop of Exeter" was commissioned to make the survey.
(E?)(L?) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=Domesday#/titles
Domesday and feudal statistics
By: Inman, A. H.
Publication info: London: E. Stock, 1900.
Holding Institution: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
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The Domesday inquest /
By: Ballard, Adolphus
Publication info: London: Methuen, [1906]
Series: Antiquary's books
Holding Institution: University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Domesday and feudal statistics, with a chapter, on agricultural statistics.
By: Inman, A. H.
Publication info: London: E. Stock, 1900.
Holding Institution: University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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A history of agriculture in Wisconsin
By: Schafer, Joseph
Publication info: Madison, State historical society of Wisconsin, 1922.
Series: Wisconsin Domesday book. General studies, vol. I
Holding Institution: Library of Congress
BHL Collections: Library of Congress
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A history of agriculture in Wisconsin
By: Schafer, Joseph
Publication info: Madison: State historical society of Wisconsin, 1922.
Series: Wisconsin Domesday book. General studies; vol. I.
Holding Institution: University of British Columbia Library (archive.org)
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General history: Property division at the time of the Domesday Survey
At the time of the Domesday survey, the landed property of Cornwall was chiefly divided between the King, Robert Earl of Mortaine, in Normandy, (by English writers called Moreton,) and of Cornwall, the King's half brother, and those who held under him; the Bishop of Exeter, the Prior and convent of Bodmin; the Abbot and convent of Tavistock; and a few other monasteries and colleges.
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Episode 69: From Conquest to Domesday
In the two decades that followed the Norman Conquest, most of the land in England passed into the hands of French-speaking nobles. This process not only brought the feudal system to England, it also brought the French language to the peasants out in the countryside. In this episode, we explore these developments, and we look at some of the first words to pass from Norman French into English. We also examine an early Middle English passage from Robert of Gloucester.
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Limericks on "domesday"
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Domesday
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In origin, "Domesday" is just a Middle English spelling of "doomsday", a name which only came to be applied to the survey a century after its compilation, at first facetiously as being an unavoidable and final judgement (contemporaries called it "the description of England"). A "doom" was originally a "statute", "decree" or "judgement" (especially applied to the day of the "Last Judgement" in Christian theology, as in "the crack of doom" [dt. "die Posaunen des Jüngsten Gerichts"], and "doomsday" itself). There had earlier been "doombooks", "codes of laws", particularly the one said to have been compiled by King Alfred at the end of the ninth century. The "doom-settle" or "doom seat" was in early medieval times the place of judgement in a court of law. Later "doom" came to refer more generally to "one’s fate or destiny", often with a sense of evil befalling one.
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"domesday", Noun, Obsolete form of "doomsday".
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Abfrage im Google-Corpus mit 15Mio. eingescannter Bücher von 1500 bis heute.
Engl. "Domesday" taucht in der Literatur um das Jahr 1820 auf.
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