Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blōstmô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Alternative forms

*blōsmô, *blōsmō, *blōsmaz

Etymology

Related to *blōstaz[1] and possibly *blōmô.[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈblɔːst.mɔːː/

Noun

*blōstmô m

flower

Declension

masculine an-stemDeclension of *blōstmô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*blōstmô	*blōstmaniz
vocative	*blōstmô	*blōstmaniz
accusative	*blōstmanų	*blōstmanunz
genitive	*blōstminiz	*blōstmanǫ̂
dative	*blōstmini	*blōstmammaz
instrumental	*blōstminē	*blōstmammiz

Descendants

Old English: blōstma, blōsma, blōstm
- Middle English: blosme
  - English: blossom
  - Scots: blossom
Old Frisian: *blōsma
- West Frisian: blossem
Old Saxon: *blōsmo
- Middle Low German: blossem, blosem
  - Low German: Blossen
Old Dutch: *bluostmo
- Middle Dutch: bloeseme, bloesem, bloesene
  - Dutch: bloesem
(possibly) Old Norse: blómstr
- Danish: blomst c
- Icelandic: blómstur
- Norwegian:
  - Norwegian Bokmål: blomster, blomst
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: blomster
- Swedish: blomster

References

“blossom, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 25 June 2019.
Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*bloman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 202

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[1] “blossom, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 25 June 2019.

[2] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*bloman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 202