*blōstmô

Runic: ᛒᛚᛟᛊᛏᛗᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈblɔːst.mɔːː/

noun · masculine · an-stem

Meanings

flower

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s- + *-tó- (forms deverbal adjectives) + *-mō (forms abstract nouns from verbs) from root bʰleh₃- (‘bloom, flower’). Related to *blōstaz, *blōmô. Compare Latin flōs (‘flower, blossom’) for the s-extension. Though a -tó suffix usually involves a zero-grade root, in this case it may have been added as a secondary derivation or it may be a result of early leveling.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	–	–
Acc.	–	–
Gen.	–	–
Dat.	–	–
Inst.	–	–
Voc.	–	–

Descendants

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

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