bloma

See also: blóma and bløma

Gothic

Romanization

blōma

1. 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)

1. 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)

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

Declension

Weak:

	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^[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