English

abloom

Abloom comes from English bloom ‘flower’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1900, Gregory Hartswick, [Untitled]: “For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh…”

A compound of a- ‘in’ + bloom ‘flower’

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ‘to bloom, to flower’

Proto-Germanic *blōaną ‘to bloom’

Proto-Germanic *blōmô ‘flower’

Old Norse blóm ‘flower’

Middle English blome ‘a blossom or bloom’

English bloom

Every English word from English bloom

adv In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.