Where does “Bloom” come from?

Bloom (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German blôme, from Old Saxon blōmo, from Proto-Germanic *blōmō, from Proto-Germanic blōmô, from Proto-Germanic blōaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.

Bloom (Plautdietsch): flower, bloom

Definitions

  1. flower, bloom

Ancestry of “Bloom”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanblôme—
2Old Saxonblōmo—
3Proto-Germanic*blōmōflower
4Proto-Germanicblōmôflower
5Proto-Germanicblōanąto bloom, to flower
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰleh₃-bloom, flower
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
8Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—

Words derived from “Bloom”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰel- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃- →