vallmo
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish *valmoghe, from Old Norse *valmogi, comprised of:
- First part vall- is of uncertain origin; Kroonen interprets the compound to mean "lily of the valley," thus connecting Latin vallis.[1] Pokorny instead suggests Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely”) (compare the Nordic name Valbjørn).[2] Or, possibly instead from the root of English welk, German welken (“to wither, decay”) (compare Proto-Germanic *wulkną).
- The second part is from *mogi, from Proto-Germanic *mōhô (“poppy”).
Cognate with Danish valmue; also German Mohn, Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn) (Doric μάκων (mákōn)) and Church Slavonic макъ (makŭ) (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian мак).
Declension
| Declension of vallmo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | vallmo | vallmon | vallmor | vallmorna |
| Genitive | vallmos | vallmons | vallmors | vallmornas |
References
- vallmo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- vallmo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- vallmo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “mohan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 371
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “655-57”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 655-57
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