KINGDOM

- Political realm 🔍 / state 🔍  [-DOM: suffix of state; Old English dom = statute, judgment (see DOMINION below) ruled by a KING [Old English contraction of cyning = king, ruler, 

cognate🔍  of kin; cynn = family, race - making king originally = leader of  [extended] family/ tribe, from Proto-Germanic kuningaz {uncertain origin; perhaps from prehistoric Germanic noble birth or divine race}] 

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   Related: DOMINION - Lordship, sovereign; Old French, from Latin dominionem, stem dominio/ dominium

= property, ownership & dominus = lord, master, from domus = house (PIE🔍  root dem = house) 

  Related: DOMAIN - territory over which dominion is exerted​​​​​​

  Related: PRINCIPALITY - realm / state ruled by a prince (or monarch.) From Latin principalitatem /

        principalis = first in importance; original, primitive from princeps / principis = first man, chief leader;

        ruler, sovereign, adjective = takes first, from primus = first [PIE preis = before (root per = forward)

        + root of capere = to take (PIE root kap = to grasp).]