Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/blōmō

This Proto-West 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.

From Proto-Germanic *blōmô; equivalent to *blōan +‎ *-mō.

*blōmō m

1. flower

• 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, blōme, pluome
    • Bavarian: Blama, Bleame, Bleaml, Bloama, Bluma
    • Central Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: Blumm
      • Kölsch: Bloom
      • Luxembourgish: Blumm
    • German: Blume
    • German Low German: Bloom
    • Plautdietsch: Bloom
    • Rhine Franconian: Blum, Blumm
      • Frankfurterisch:
      • Pennsylvania German: Blumm
    • Yiddish: בלום (blum)