Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plūmā

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prūnum.

Noun

*plūmā f[1]

plum

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plūmā
Genitive	*plūmōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plūmā	*plūmōn
Accusative	*plūmōn	*plūmōn
Genitive	*plūmōn	*plūmōnō
Dative	*plūmōn	*plūmōm
Instrumental	*plūmōn	*plūmōm

Descendants

Old English: plūme
- Middle English: plomme, ploume, plum, plumbe, plumme, plowme, ploumme, plome
  - English: plum
    - → Cornish: ploum
    - → Manx: plumbis
    - → Japanese: プラム (puramu)
    - → Scottish Gaelic: plumas
    - → Thai: พลัม (plam)
  - Scots: ploom, ploum
- → Irish: pluma
Old Frisian: *plūme
- Saterland Frisian: Pluume
Old Saxon: *plūma
- Middle Low German: *plume
  - Low German: Pluum
  - Plautdietsch: Plum
  - → Latvian: plūme
  - → Old Norse: plóma
    - Icelandic: plóma
    - Faroese: blomma
    - Norwegian:
      - Norwegian Bokmål: plomme
      - Norwegian Nynorsk: plomme
    - Old Swedish: plōma
      - → Finnish: luumu (probably)
      - Swedish: plommon (under influence from -on)
        → Elfdalian: plommon (probably)
  - → Danish: plomme (now replaced by blomme)
    - Danish: blomme
  - → Gutnish: plome, plomå
Old High German: pflūma

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *plūmā”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *plūmā”