Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blautaz

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰlowdh₂o-, from *bʰlow- (“emaciated, soft”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φλυδάω (phludáō, “to be soft, weak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɑu̯.tɑz/

Adjective

*blautaz

1. soft
2. exhausted; emptied out; spent
3. fainthearted
4. bare; naked

Inflection

Declension of *blautaz (a-stem)

Strong declension
Case	Masculine		Feminine		Neuter
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*blautaz	*blautai	*blautō	*blautôz	*blautą, -atō	*blautō
Accusative	*blautanǭ	*blautanz	*blautǭ	*blautōz	*blautą, -atō	*blautō
Genitive	*blautas, -is	*blautaizǫ̂	*blautaizōz	*blautaizǫ̂	*blautas, -is	*blautaizǫ̂
Dative	*blautammai	*blautaimaz	*blautaizōi	*blautaimaz	*blautammai	*blautaimaz
Instrumental	*blautanō	*blautaimiz	*blautaizō	*blautaimiz	*blautanō	*blautaimiz
Weak declension
Case	Masculine		Feminine		Neuter
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*blautô	*blautaniz	*blautǭ	*blautōniz	*blautô	*blautōnō
Accusative	*blautanų	*blautanunz	*blautōnų	*blautōnunz	*blautô	*blautōnō
Genitive	*blautiniz	*blautanǫ̂	*blautōniz	*blautōnǫ̂	*blautiniz	*blautanǫ̂
Dative	*blautini	*blautammaz	*blautōni	*blautōmaz	*blautini	*blautammaz
Instrumental	*blautinē	*blautammiz	*blautōnē	*blautōmiz	*blautinē	*blautammiz

Derived terms

• *blautijaną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *blaut
  • Old English: blēat
    • Middle English: *blete, *bleet
      • Scots: bleat, blait, bleet
  • Old Frisian: blāt
    • Saterland Frisian: bloot
    • West Frisian: bleat
  • Old Saxon: *blōt
    • Middle Low German: blôt
      • Low German: blott, blutt
      • → Swedish: blott
      • → Danish: blot
  • Old Dutch: *blōt
    • Middle Dutch: blôot
      • Dutch: bloot
    • → Middle English: blōt
  • Old High German: blōz, *blōt — Lombardic
    • Middle High German: blōz
      • Alemannic German: bloos, blooss, blöiß (Einsiedeln)
      • Central Franconian:

        Kölsch: blus

      • German: bloß
      • Luxembourgish: blouss
      • Rhine Franconian:

        Pennsylvania German: blooss

      • Yiddish: בלויז (bloyz)
    • → Occitan: blos, blous (“pure, empty, bare”)
      • ⇒ Occitan: lano blouso (“pure or short wool”)
        • → French: blousse (“scraps of wool”)
          • ⇒? French: blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Latin: *blotiāre (from Lombardic *blōt)
      • Medieval Latin: bluttāre
• Old Norse: blautr
  • Icelandic: blautur
  • Faroese: bleytur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blaut
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: blaut
  • Dalian: blot
  • Old Swedish: blø̄ter
    • Swedish: blöt
  • Old Danish: bløthær
    • Danish: blød
      • Norwegian Bokmål: bløt
• → Proto-Samic:
  • Northern Sami: lávtas