bloma

See also: blóma and bløma

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

blōma

Romanization of 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Alternative forms edit

blome (e infinitive)

Etymology edit

From Old Norse blóma.

Verb edit

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

to bloom, blossom, flower

Synonyms edit

bløma, bløme
blomstra, blomstre

References edit

“blome” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈbloː.mɑ/

Noun edit

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 edit

Declension of bloma (weak)

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

Derived terms edit

goldblōma

Descendants edit

Middle English: blome
- English: bloom

References edit

John R. Clark Hall (1916) “bloma”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 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