blomme

Afrikaans

Noun

blomme

1. plural of blom

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish blomæ (“flower”), from Old Norse blómi m, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô m (“flower”), cognate with Swedish blomma, English bloom, German Blume f, Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 m (blōma). Derived from the verb *blōaną (“to bloom”) (cf. German blühen). These words go back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”), which is also the source of Latin flōs (hence English flower and Danish flor).

The common modern meaning "plum" is due to contamination with another word, plomme (now obsolete), from Middle Low German plūme, from Old Saxon *plūma, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, cognate with English plum, German Pflaume. Norwegian plomme and Swedish plommon are also borrowed from Low German. The West Germanic word is an early loan from Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥lʌmə]

Noun

blomme c (singular definite blommen, plural indefinite blommer)

1. plum (the fruit and the tree)
2. yolk (the yellow part of an egg)

   Synonym: æggeblomme

3. finger pad
4. (obsolete, poetic) flower

   Synonym: blomst

   • 1863, Digte, page 30:

     Jorden grønnes, / Fuglen lønnes / For sin faste Tro, / Thi alt længe / Over Enge / Den.^[sic] forjætted jo / Vaarens Komme; / Blad og Blomme / Ere Vidner paa, / At dens mange / Sommersange / Snart opfyldes maae.

     The earth greens, / The bird is rewarded / For its unwavering faith, / For for a long time / Over meadows / It did, as is known, promise / The coming of spring; / Leaf and flower / Are witnesses / That its many / Summer songs / Must soon come true.

   • 1813, Werner Hans Frederich Abrahamson, Udvalgte danske Viser fra Middelalgeren, page 65:

     Du est skjøn Anna Søster min, / Du ædle Rosens-Blomme!

     You are beautiful, my sister Anna, / You noble rose flower!

   • 1859, Album af nyere norske Digtere, page 122:

     Hvis alt hist min Grav er aabnet, / Grav, o lov mig: af dit Skjød / fyd en ukjendt Blomme rød, / rød som Løvens Felt i Vaabnet, […]

     If my grave there is opened, / O grave, promise me: from your womb / give birth to an unknown red flower, / red as the field of the lion in the coat of arms, […]

Declension

Declension of blomme

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	blomme	blommen	blommer	blommerne
genitive	blommes	blommens	blommers	blommernes

References

• “blomme,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “blomme,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “blomme,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

blomme m (definite singular blommen, indefinite plural blommar, definite plural blommane)

1. (pre-1959) alternative form of plomme

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bloeme, from Old Dutch *bluomo, from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō.

Noun

blomme f (plural blommn)

1. flower