Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blautaz

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 Proto-Indo-European *bʰlowdh₂-o-s, from *bʰlow- (“emaciated, soft”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φλυδάω (phludáō, “to be soft, weak”). Despite similar phonetics and semantics, not related to Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“soft, weak”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈblɑu̯.tɑz/

Adjective

*blautaz

Inflection

Declension of *blautaz (a-stem)
Strong declension
	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	*blautaz	*blautō	*blautą, -atō	*blautai	*blautôz	*blautō
accusative	*blautanǭ	*blautǭ	*blautą, -atō	*blautanz	*blautōz	*blautō
genitive	*blautas, -is	*blautaizōz	*blautas, -is	*blautaizǫ̂	*blautaizǫ̂	*blautaizǫ̂
dative	*blautammai	*blautaizōi	*blautammai	*blautaimaz	*blautaimaz	*blautaimaz
instrumental	*blautanō	*blautaizō	*blautanō	*blautaimiz	*blautaimiz	*blautaimiz

Weak declension
	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	*blautô	*blautǭ	*blautô	*blautaniz	*blautōniz	*blautōnō
accusative	*blautanų	*blautōnų	*blautô	*blautanunz	*blautōnunz	*blautōnō
genitive	*blautiniz	*blautōniz	*blautiniz	*blautanǫ̂	*blautōnǫ̂	*blautanǫ̂
dative	*blautini	*blautōni	*blautini	*blautammaz	*blautōmaz	*blautammaz
instrumental	*blautinē	*blautōnē	*blautinē	*blautammiz	*blautōmiz	*blautammiz

Derived terms

*blautijaną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *blaut
- Old English: blēat
  - Middle English: *blete, *bleet
    - Scots: bleat, blait, bleet
- Old Frisian: blāt
  - Saterland Frisian: bloot
  - West Frisian: bleat
- Old Saxon: *blōt
  - Middle Low German: blôt
    - German Low German: bloot (adjective), blot (adverb)
    - Low German: blott, blutt
    - → Swedish: blott
    - → Danish: blot
- Old Dutch: *blōt
  - Middle Dutch: blôot
    - Dutch: bloot
      - Afrikaans: bloot
  - → Middle English: blōt
- Old High German: blōz, *blōt — Lombardic
  - Middle High German: blōz
    - Alemannic German: bloos, blooss, blöiß (Einsiedeln)
    - Central Franconian:
      Kölsch: blus
    - German: bloß
    - Luxembourgish: blouss
    - Rhine Franconian:
      Pennsylvania German: blooss
    - Yiddish: בלויז (bloyz)
  - → Occitan: blos, blous (“pure, empty, bare”)
    - ⇒ Occitan: lano blouso (“pure or short wool”)
      - → French: blousse (“scraps of wool”)
        ⇒? French: blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”) (see there for further descendants)
  - → Latin: *blotiāre (from Lombardic *blōt)
    - Medieval Latin: bluttāre
Old Norse: blautr
- Icelandic: blautur
- Faroese: bleytur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: blaut
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: blaut
- Dalian: blot
- Old Swedish: blø̄ter
  - Swedish: blöt
- Old Danish: bløthær
  - Danish: blød
    - Norwegian Bokmål: bløt
→ Proto-Samic:
- Northern Sami: lávtas

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*blauta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 67

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*blauta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 67

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