English
spaedom
From spae + -dom.
Formed from spae + -dom
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- ‘to look’
Proto-Germanic *spahōną ‘to observe’
Old Norse spá ‘to foretell, prophesy’
Middle English spā
Scots spae ‘to prophesy, foretell, predict, tell fortunes’
English spae
Today it means
noun Synonym of spae-craft (“magical divination of the future”).
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “spaedom”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / spaedom