soot
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English
Etymology
Inherited 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/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /sʉt/
- (now dialectal) IPA(key): /sʌt/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt
- Homophone: suit (in some dialects)
Noun
soot (usually uncountable, plural soots)
- Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
- Synonym: lampblack
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Translations
fine black or dull brown particles
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Verb
soot (third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted)
- (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.
- 1707, J Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , →OCLC:
- soot land
See also
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “soot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9), volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 11.67, page 335.
Anagrams
Jawe
Verb
soot
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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Pronunciation
Noun
soot (uncountable)
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Descendants
References
- “sọ̄t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2019.
Etymology 2
From Old English swōt.
Adjective
soot
- alternative form of swete