[cedricgle]

I am not sure: did the word doom predate the game or did Id invented it ?. The word origin isn't very clear in wiktionary [1].

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doom

[acdw]

Doom is an extremely old word[1] that was originally neutral in meaning, but has had a negative connotation since the 14th century.

[1]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/doom#etymonline_v_13942

[jjbinx007]

The word doom was around long before the game.

This is ridiculous. Companies don't magically own all the words.

[14]

It reminds me how Paris Hilton trademarked the words “that’s hot”. Like she was the first person to say that. What a ridiculous world we have some times.

[adventured]

Just do it. I'm lovin' it. Think different. Eat fresh. It's finger lickin' good.

Slogan trademarks are definitely another monster in the trademark space.

[legutierr]

"Be it so, for I submit: his doom is fair, That dust I am, and shall to dust return."

http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Milton/pl10.html

"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-...

[thaumasiotes]

> The word origin isn't very clear in wiktionary

Huh? Is 'from Old English dōm ("judgement")' not clear enough for you? It's a native word; as far as we know it's infinitely old.

[tobr]

Is this an attempt at sarcasm? The etymology mentions proto-indo-european, which predates Id by a little bit.

[thaumasiotes]

> The etymology mentions proto-indo-european

That doesn't mean much. Compare https://www.etymonline.com/word/loot :

> "goods taken from an enemy, etc.,"

> from PIE *roup-tro-, from root *reup- "to snatch"

This would make it a cognate of rape, by the way.

But being traceable to Proto-Indo-European doesn't tell you anything about the age of the English word. That is a loan from Hindi, and only dates back to the British Raj.

[bussierem]

Well it's not exact, it's the middle english spelling, but the "Doomsday Book"[1], aka "Domesday Book" comes from 1086, so that might predate Id by a bit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book

[ingenieros]

If anything Tom Cruise should be the one suing Id Software http://www.factfiend.com/how-tom-cruise-inspired-doom/

[egypturnash]

It goes all the way back to Middle English, with roots further back. https://www.etymonline.com/word/doom

“Modern adverse sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" begins early 14c. and is general after c. 1600”

[mellavora]

Swedish/Nordic. Dom. To judge, judgement. Doomsday is judgement day. Very old word.

[Brian_K_White]

I can't believe someone asked this. Seriously?

[alophawen]

What is not clear? They have a detailed etymology