Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blōmô

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 *blōaną (“to bloom”) +‎ *-mô (“-ness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɔː.mɔːː/

Noun

*blōmô m

1. 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

Derived terms

• *blōmōną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *blōmō
  • 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: [plum]
        • Pennsylvania German: Blumm
      • Yiddish: בלום (blum)
• Old Norse: blóm, blómi
  • Icelandic: blóm, blómi
  • Faroese: blóma, blómi
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: blom, blome
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: blom, blome
  • Old Swedish: blōme, blōma, ᛒᛚᚮᛘᚽ (Runic)
    • Swedish: blomma
  • Old Danish: blomæ
    • Danish: blomme
      • Norwegian Bokmål: blomme
  • → Middle English: blome, blom (“flower”)
    • English: bloom
    • Scots: blume, blum, bluim, bleem, blome
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma)
• Vandalic: *bluma
• →? Proto-Samic: *luomēn (“cloudberry”) (via Proto-Norse; see there for further descendants)