𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰

Forms

𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma), a masculine n-stem noun.^[1][2][3] The only recorded form is the accusative plural 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰𐌽𐍃 (blomans).^[2][4]

Etymology

It is inherited from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”),^[5][6] formed from *blōaną (“to bloom”) with the suffix *-mô;^[7] Casaretto takes it as a primary formation to that verb.^[8] The cognates are Old Norse blómi, Old English blōma, Old Saxon blōmo and Old High German bluomo,^[9][10][6] and the verb survives in blōwan (“to bloom”), blōian and bluojen.^[9][11] Outside Germanic the root appears in Latin flōs (“flower”) and Old Irish bláth (“flower, blossom”);^[9][10] Kroonen identifies its laryngeal as h₃ on the evidence of the Irish word and of the Germanic noun, giving Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-.^[12] Feist and Uhlenbeck think the root probably related to that of 𐌿𐍆𐌱𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌰𐌽 (ufblēsan, “to puff up”).^[9][10] Lehmann doubts that Old English blōma in the sense "mass of metal" belongs here.^[11]

Attestation

The word occurs once, at Matthew 6:28 in manuscript CA, where it renders Ancient Greek κρίνον (krínon, “lily”).^[4][13][2] The verse has gakunnaiþ blomans haiþjos ƕaiwa wahsjand, "consider the flowers of the field, how they grow".^[14]

Meanings

1. a flower; in its one occurrence a lily, for κρίνον^[1][2][5]

Related words

• 𐌿𐍆𐌱𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌰𐌽 (ufblēsan, “to puff up”)

References

1. ^ a b Streitberg, Wilhelm (1910), Die gotische Bibel, II: Gotisch-griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, Heidelberg: Winter, p. s.v. bloma
2. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Gotisches Wörterbuch, 4th ed., online, koeblergerhard.de/wikiling, p. s.v. blōma*
3. ^ Braune, Wilhelm; Heidermanns, Frank (2004), Gotische Grammatik, mit Lesestücken und Wörterverzeichnis, 20th ed., Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken germanischer Dialekte A 1, Tübingen: Niemeyer, p. 272
4. ^ a b De Herdt, Tom (2004–2026), Project Wulfila: digital edition of the Gothic Bible with lemma and morphological annotation, data release 2026-09-03, wulfila.be
5. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰
6. ^ a b Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11, Leiden / Boston: Brill, p. 70
7. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. *blōmô
8. ^ Casaretto, Antje (2004), Nominale Wortbildung der gotischen Sprache: Die Derivation der Substantive, Heidelberg: Winter
9. ^ a b c d Feist, Sigmund (1939), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der gotischen Sprache, 3rd ed., Leiden: Brill, p. s.v. bloma
10. ^ a b c Uhlenbeck, C. C. (1900), Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch der gotischen Sprache, 2nd ed., Amsterdam: Müller, p. 30
11. ^ a b Lehmann, Winfred P. (1986), A Gothic Etymological Dictionary, based on the third edition of Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der gotischen Sprache by Sigmund Feist, Leiden: Brill, p. s.v. *bloma
12. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11, Leiden / Boston: Brill, p. 69
13. ^ Haug, Dag T. T. et al., PROIEL Treebank: The Gothic Bible (gothic-nt), 2023 release, Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages, University of Oslo
14. ^ De Herdt, Tom (2004–2026), Project Wulfila: digital edition of the Gothic Bible with lemma and morphological annotation, data release 2026-09-03, wulfila.be, p. Mt 6:28