Simon, there is none.  A convenient place to check such things is Cal Watkins’s listing of PIE etymons in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3d ed., New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. Pp. 8248-8652., which has this entry:

 

dhē

Important derivatives are: do1, deed, doom, -dom, deem, fact, factor, fashion, feat1,

feature, affair, affect1, affection, amplify, benefit, defeat, defect, effect, efficient,

infect, justify, modify, notify, perfect, profit, qualify, sacrifice, face, surface,

difficulty, thesis, theme.

To set, put.

Contracted from *dheə-.

14. O-grade form *dhō-. DO1; FORDO, from Old English dōn, to do,

from Germanic *dōn.

15. Suffixed form *dhē-ti-, “thing laid down or done, law, deed.”

DEED, from Old English dāēd, doing, deed, from Germanic

*dēdiz.

16. Suffixed o-grade form *dhō-mo-.

a. DOOM, from Old English dōm, judgment (

b. -DOM, from Old English -dom, abstract suffix indicating

state, condition, or power;

c. (see kā-) Old Norse -dōmr, condition;

d. DUMA, from Russian Duma, Duma, from a Germanic

source akin to Gothic dōms, judgment;

e. DEEM, from Old English dēman, to judge, from

Germanic denominative dōmjan. a, b, c, d, and e all

from Germanic dōmaz.

 

Best,

Tim

 

 

Timothy Lubin

Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law

Chair of the Department of Religion

204 Tucker Hall

Washington and Lee University

Lexington, Virginia 24450

 

https://lubin.academic.wlu.edu/ 

http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=930949 

 

 

 

 

 

From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Reply-To: Simon Brodbeck <BrodbeckSP@cardiff.ac.uk>
Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 4:24 PM
To: INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Doom and dharma

 

Dear colleagues,

 

Can anyone comment on the etymological link (if any) between the word "doom" and the word "dharma"?

 

Thanks in advance ...

 

Simon Brodbeck

Cardiff University