Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blōmô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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.

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

Descendants

Old English: *blōma ("blossom"); blōma ("mass of iron")
- Middle English: blom, blome (sense of "flower, blossom" possibly due to Old Norse confluence)
  - Scots: blume, bluim, bleem
  - English: bloom
Old Frisian: blōma; *blōme f
- Saterland Frisian: Bloume
- West Frisian: blom, blomme
Old Saxon: blōmo; *blōma
- Middle Low German: blōme
  - Low German: Bloom
Old Dutch: *bluomo, bluome
- Middle Dutch: bloeme
  - Dutch: bloem
    - Afrikaans: bloem, blom
Old High German: bluomo; bluoma
- Middle High German: bluome
  - German: Blume
  - Luxembourgish: Blumm
Old Norse: blómi, blóm
- Icelandic: blómi, blóm
- Faroese: blóma, blómi
- Norwegian Nynorsk: blome
- Old Swedish: blōme, blōma
  - Swedish: blomma
- Danish: blomme
- Westrobothnian: blöömm, blååmm, blååom
- Middle English: blome
  - English: bloom (in the sense of flower, blossom)
Gothic: 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma)