Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plūmā

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *prūma, *prūna, from Latin prūnum.

Noun

*plūmā f

1. plum

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plūmā
Genitive	*plūmōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plūmā	*plūmōn
Accusative	*plūmōn	*plūmōn
Genitive	*plūmōn	*plūmōnō
Dative	*plūmōn	*plūmōm, *plūmum
Instrumental	*plūmōn	*plūmōm, *plūmum

Descendants

• Old English: plūme, plȳme, plūmae — early
  • Middle English: plomme, ploume, plum, plumbe, plumme, plowme, ploumme, plome
    • English: plum (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: ploom, ploum
  • → Irish: pluma
• Old Frisian: *plūme
  • Saterland Frisian: Pluume
• Old Saxon: *plūma
  • Middle Low German: *plume
    • Low German: Pluum
    • Plautdietsch: Plum
    • → Latvian: plūme
    • → Old Norse: plóma
      • Icelandic: plóma
      • Faroese: blomma
      • Norwegian Bokmål: plomme
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: plomme
      • Old Swedish: plōma
        • Swedish: plommon (under influence from -on)
          • →? Elfdalian: plommon
        • →? Finnish: luumu
      • Danish: plomme, blomme
      • Gutnish: plome, plomå
• Old High German: pflūma, pfrūma
  • Middle High German: pflūme, pfrūme
    • Alemannic German: Fluume
    • Cimbrian: frauma
    • German: Pflaume
    • Hunsrik: Flaum
    • Vilamovian: fłaojm
    • Yiddish: פֿלוים (floym)