Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bladą

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 *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈblɑ.ðɑ̃/

Noun

*bladą n

leaf (of a plant)
sheet
blade (flat surface of a tool or weapon)

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *bladą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bladą	*bladō
vocative	*bladą	*bladō
accusative	*bladą	*bladō
genitive	bladas, bladis	*bladǫ̂
dative	*bladai	*bladamaz
instrumental	*bladō	*bladamiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *blad
- Old English: blæd
  - Middle English: blad, blade
    - Scots: blad, blaud, blaid
    - English: blade
- Old Frisian: bled
  - North Frisian:
    Föhr: bleed
    Hallig: blää
  - Saterland Frisian: Blääd
  - West Frisian: bled
- Old Saxon: blad
  - Middle Low German: blat
    - Low German: Blatt
    - Plautdietsch: Blaut
- Old Dutch: *blat
  - Middle Dutch: blat
    - Dutch: blad
      - Afrikaans: blad (“page”), blaar (“leaf”)
    - Limburgish: blaad
- Old High German: blat
  - Middle High German: blat
    - Alemannic German: Blatt
      Swabian:
    - Central Franconian: Blatt, Blat
      Hunsrik: Blaat
      Luxembourgish: Blat
    - East Central German:
      Upper Saxon:
      Vilamovian: błot
    - East Franconian:
    - German: Blatt
    - Rhine Franconian: Blaat, Blatt
      Pennsylvania German: Blatt
    - Yiddish: בלאַט‎ (blat)
Old Norse: blað
- Icelandic: blað
- Faroese: blað
- Norwegian: blad
- Old Swedish: blaþ
  - Swedish: blad
- Danish: blad
- Westrobothnian: bla (blödu)