owndom

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owndom

/ˈəʊn.dəm/ UK
/ˈoʊn.dəm/ US

Where it comes from

From own + -dom, a calque of German Eigentum (“property”), from eigen (“own”) + -tum (“-dom”). Compare Saterland Frisian Oaindum (“property, possession”), Dutch eigendom, West Frisian eigendom.

noun owndoms

countable, uncommon, uncountable Property. The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
countable, uncommon, uncountable Personal belongings; possessions.
countable, uncommon, uncountable A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
countable, uncommon, uncountable Ownership; possession. The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom[…]"
countable, uncommon, uncountable Control of oneself; self-mastery.

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