Yoïn van Spijk 3 months ago
The Old English word for a flower was ‘blōsma’.
While it survived, becoming modern ‘blossom’, it gave up part of its meaning to a French loanword.
Interestingly though, this word, originally spelled both ‘flour’ and ‘flower’, stems from the same root as ‘blossom’.
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