bloma

See also: blóma and bløma

Gothic

Romanization

blōma

Romanization of 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

blome (e infinitive)

Etymology

From Old Norse blóma.

Verb

bloma (present tense blomar, past tense bloma, past participle bloma, passive infinitive blomast, present participle blomande, imperative bloma/blom)

to bloom, blossom, flower

Synonyms

bløma, bløme
blomstra, blomstre

References

“blome” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

Unknown, but probably a secondary sense to unrecorded *blōma (“flower”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbloː.mɑ/

Noun

blōma m (nominative plural blōman)

(metallurgy) The (mass of) metal extracted from the ore; lump, mass
- Īsenes blōma ― a mass of iron (Som: Cot. 135)

Declension

Declension of bloma (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	blōma	blōman
accusative	blōman	blōman
genitive	blōman	blōmena
dative	blōman	blōmum

Derived terms

goldblōma

Descendants

Middle English: blome
- English: bloom

References

John R. Clark Hall (1916) “bloma”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bloma”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gerhard Köbler, Altenglisches Wörterbuch, 2003

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