Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *blōþąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_blōþą
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Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 1)DirkBoutkanSjoerd M.SiebingaBrill2005Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013ἔαρ𒂊𒌍𒄯असृज्
nounneutera-stembloodUncertain. Kroonen 2013 posits a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-tó-m, a neuter collective noun from *bʰleh₃- (‘to bloom’) morphing into the sense of ‘blooming red, blushing’ > ‘liquid blood’). He also suggests a possible derivation from *bʰleh₁-tó-m from *bʰleh₁- (‘to blow’), with a sense of ‘blowing or gushing out’, ultimately from *bʰel-(‘to blow, swell up’; compare Old Armenian բեղմն (bełmn, ‘semen’ from the same root)). e.g., Boutkan & Siebinga 2005 believe it has a non-IE substrate origin, especially given the fact that the widely distributed PIE word for ‘blood’, the r/n-stem *h₁ésh₂r̥ ~ *h₁sh₂éns (cf. Hittite 𒂊𒌍𒄯 (e-eš-ḫar, /ēšḫar/), Ancient Greek ἔαρ (éar), Sanskrit असृज् (asṛj), and Latin sanguī̆s) does not show up with that sense in Proto-Germanic (though it did survive in *īsarną (‘iron’).