Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blōmô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From *blōaną +‎ *-mô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈblɔː.mɔːː/

Noun

*blōmô m

flower

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *blōmô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*blōmô	*blōmaniz
vocative	*blōmô	*blōmaniz
accusative	*blōmanų	*blōmanunz
genitive	*blōminiz	*blōmanǫ̂
dative	*blōmini	*blōmammaz
instrumental	*blōminē	*blōmammiz

Derived terms

*blōmōną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *blōmō
- Old English: blōma
  - Middle English: blome
    - English: bloom
- Old Frisian: blōma; *blōme f
  - Saterland Frisian: Bloume
  - West Frisian: blom, blomme
- Old Saxon: blōmo; *blōma
  - Middle Low German: blōme
    - Dutch Low Saxon: bloom, bloeme
    - German Low German: Bloom
      - Plautdietsch: Bloom
- Old Dutch: *bluomo; *bluoma, bluome
  - Middle Dutch: bloeme, blume, blome, bloem, bloom, blomme, blom
    - Dutch: bloem, blom, blomme (dialectal)
      - Afrikaans: bloem, blom
      - Negerhollands: bloem
        → Virgin Islands Creole: bluminstji (dated, from a diminutive form)
      - → Sranan Tongo: blon (flour)
        → Aukan: bolon
        → Kari'na: polimin
        → Saramaccan: boón
      - → Sranan Tongo: bromki (flower)
        Aukan: boomiki
        → Kari'na: poromiki
    - Limburgish: bloom
    - West Flemish: blomme
    - Zealandic: blomme
- Old High German: bluomo, bluoma
  - Middle High German: bluome
    - Bavarian: Blama, Bleame, Bleaml, Bloama, Bluma
    - Central Franconian:
      Hunsrik: Blumm
      Kölsch: Bloom
      Luxembourgish: Blumm
    - East Central German:
    - East Franconian:
    - German: Blume
    - Rhine Franconian: Blum, Blumm
      Frankfurterisch:
      Pennsylvania German: Blumm
    - Yiddish: בלום (blum)
Old Norse: blóm, blómi
- Icelandic: blóm, blómi
- Faroese: blóma, blómi
- Norwegian:
  - Norwegian Bokmål: blom, blome
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: blom, blome
- Old Swedish: blōme, blōma, ᛒᛚᚮᛘᚽ (Runic)
  - Swedish: blomma
- Old Danish: blomæ
  - Danish: blomme
    - Norwegian Bokmål: blomme
- → Middle English: blome, blom (“flower”)
  - English: bloom
  - Scots: blume, blum, bluim, bleem, blome
Gothic: 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma)
Vandalic: *bluma
→? Proto-Samic: *luomēn (“cloudberry”) (via Proto-Norse; see there for further descendants)

Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blōmô

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