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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

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

Noun

*blōmō m

flower

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*blōmō
Genitive	blōmini, blōman
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*blōmō	*blōman
Accusative	*blōman	*blōman
Genitive	blōmini, blōman	*blōmanō
Dative	blōmini, blōman	*blōmum
Instrumental	blōmini, blōman	*blōmum

Descendants

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)