soot

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʊt/, /suːt/
  • (now dialectal) IPA(key): /sʌt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt
  • Homophone: suit (in some dialects)

Noun

soot (usually uncountable, plural soots)

  1. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-‎ (0 c, 65 e)

Translations

Verb

soot (third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted)

  1. (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , 2nd edition, London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , published 1708, →OCLC:
      soot land

See also

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “soot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 11.67, page 335.

Anagrams

Jawe

Verb

soot

  1. to grab, grip

References

  • André-Georges Haudricourt et Françoise Ozanne-Rivière, Dictionnaire thématique des langues de la région de Hienghène (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : pije - fwâi - nemi - jawe, Lacito - Documents, Asie-Austronésie 4, SELAF no. 212, Peeters, 1982

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English sōt, from Proto-West Germanic *sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

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Noun

soot (uncountable)

  1. soot
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: soot
  • Scots: suit, sute
  • Yola: zoot
References

Etymology 2

From Old English swōt.

Adjective

soot

  1. Alternative form of swete
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