Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/blōd

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

Alternative forms

*blōþ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.

Noun

*blōd n

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
  - Geordie English: bluid
Old Frisian: blōd
- North Frisian:
  Sylt: Blör
- Saterland Frisian: Bloud
- West Frisian: bloed
Old Saxon: blōd, bluod
- Middle Low German: blôt
  - Low German: Blod, Bloot
    - 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)