*dm-pd-  “domain and its master”


DSDE:
  *dm-ped-                                   Proto-IndoEuropean
  *tumfetiz                                  Proto-Germanic
  tomt            “plot for a house”         Old Danish, Swedish
  tomt            “ruin of a house”          Danish
  *dm-pedom                                  Proto-IndoEuropean
  *dápedon        “floor (org. plot)”        Greek
  
NO:
  toft            “allotted area for 
                   constructing a house”     Danish
  (personal name) + -tofte (pl.)
                  common type of village
                  name in Denmark, the 
                  Danelaw and Normandy       Danish
cf *A-d-m- “create” and *p(/kw)-d- “flat (land); foot”

TP:
  *dm-pot-        “master of the house”      Proto-IndoEuropean
  despóte:s       “master, ruler”            Greek
  *tumfaþ-                                   Proto-Germanic

NO:
  tomte           “supernatural being living
                   in a house, spirit of the
                   house, gnome, pixie 
                   (> Santa Claus)”          Swedish

TP:
  *dm-pot-nya     “mistress”                 Proto-IndoEuropean
>
TA:
  tamfana         “goddess of the Marsi”     Marsic at the Rhine
                                             (Nordwestblock?)
cf *A-d-m- “create” and *p-t- “master, mistress”

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