Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plūmā

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

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *prūma, *prūna, from Latin prūnum.

Noun

*plūmā f[1]

plum

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plūmā
Genitive	*plūmōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plūmā	*plūmōn
Accusative	*plūmōn	*plūmōn
Genitive	*plūmōn	*plūmōnō
Dative	*plūmōn	plūmōm, plūmum
Instrumental	*plūmōn	plūmōm, plūmum

Descendants

Old English: plūme, plȳme; plūmae
- Middle English: plomme, ploume, plum, plumbe, plumme, plowme, ploumme, plome
  - English: plum (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: ploom, ploum
- → Irish: pluma
Old Frisian: *plūme
- Saterland Frisian: Pluume
Old Saxon: *plūma
- Middle Low German: *plume
  - Low German: Pluum
  - Plautdietsch: Plum
  - → Latvian: plūme
  - → Old Norse: plóma
    - Icelandic: plóma
    - Faroese: blomma
    - Norwegian Bokmål: plomme
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: plomme
    - Old Swedish: plōma
      - Swedish: plommon (under influence from -on)
        →? Elfdalian: plommon
      - →? Finnish: luumu
    - Danish: plomme, blomme
    - Gutnish: plome, plomå
Old High German: pflūma, pfrūma
- Middle High German: pflūme, pfrūme
  - Alemannic German: Fluume
  - Cimbrian: frauma
  - German: Pflaume
  - Hunsrik: Flaum
  - Vilamovian: fłaojm
  - Yiddish: פֿלוים (floym)

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *plūmā”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *plūmā”