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

1. 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
      • 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: polomiki
    • Limburgish: bloom
    • West Flemish: blomme
    • Zealandic: blomme
• Old High German: bluomo, bluoma
  • Middle High German: bluome
    • Bavarian: Blama, Bleame, Bleaml, Bloama, Bluma
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Blumm

      Kölsch: Bloom

      Luxembourgish: Blumm

    • East Central German:
    • East Franconian:
    • German: Blume
    • Rhine Franconian: Blum, Blumm

      Frankfurterisch: [plum]

      Pennsylvania German: Blumm

    • Yiddish: בלום (blum)