Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/blōd

Proto-West Germanic

Alternative forms

• *blōþ

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-?

Proto-Germanic *blōþą

Proto-West Germanic *blōd

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.

Noun

*blōd n

1. blood

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*blōd
Genitive	*blōdas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*blōd	*blōdu
Accusative	*blōd	*blōdu
Genitive	*blōdas	*blōdō
Dative	*blōdē	*blōdum
Instrumental	*blōdu	*blōdum

Descendants

• Old English: blōd
  • Middle English: blood
    • Scots: bluid
    • English: blood
• Old Frisian: blōd
  • North Frisian:

    Sylt: Blör

  • Saterland Frisian: Bloud
  • West Frisian: bloed
• Old Saxon: blōd
  • Middle Low German: blôt
    • German Low German: Blood, Bloot
• Old Dutch: bluot
  • Middle Dutch: bloet
    • Dutch: bloed
      • Afrikaans: bloed
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: blutu
      • Javindo: bloet
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: blut
      • →? Sranan Tongo: brudu
        • → Aukan: buulu
        • → Saramaccan: buúu
    • Limburgish: blood
• Old High German: bluot, blod, bluat, blud, bluet, bluod, bluoth, blut, bluth, pload, ploat, plot, plout, pluat, pluod, pluot, pluoth
  • Middle High German: bluot
    • Alemannic German: Bluet

      Alsatian: Blüet

      Swabian: Bluat

    • Bavarian: Bluad, Bluat

      Cimbrian: pluat

      Mòcheno:

    • Central Franconian: Blot
      • Hunsrik: Blud
      • Luxembourgish: Blutt
    • East Central German: Blutt (Oberlausitz; Silesian)

      Vilamovian: błüt

    • East Franconian:
    • German: Blut
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Blut

    • Yiddish: בלוט (blut)