Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blōmô
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *blōaną (“to bloom”) + *-mô (“-ness”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɔː.mɔːː/
Noun
*blōmô m
Inflection
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | *blōmô | *blōmaniz |
| vocative | *blōmô | *blōmaniz |
| accusative | *blōmanų | *blōmanunz |
| genitive | *blōminiz | *blōmanǫ̂ |
| dative | *blōmini | *blōmammaz |
| instrumental | *blōminē | *blōmammiz |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *blōmō
- Old English: blōma
- Old Frisian: blōma; *blōme f
- Old Saxon: blōmo; *blōma f
- Old Dutch: bluoma
- Old High German: bluomo, bluoma
- Old Norse: blóm, blómi
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma)
- Vandalic: *bluma
- →? Proto-Samic: *luomēn (“cloudberry”) (via Proto-Norse; see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*blōman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 70