soot

See also: Soot

English

Etymology

From Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt[1], 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/[2]
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.

Synonyms

lampblack

Derived terms

soot blower

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-‎ (0 c, 62 e)

Translations

fine black or dull brown particles

Albanian: blozë (sq) f
Arabic: سُخَام‎ m (suḵām)
Aragonese: follín (an)
Armenian: մուր (hy) (mur)
Aromanian: furidzinã, fulidzini f
Azerbaijani: his (az), qurum (az)
Bashkir: ҡором (qorom)
Basque: kedar
Bavarian: Ruass
Belarusian: са́жа f (sáža), ку́рава n (kúrava), ко́паць f (kópacʹ)
Bikol Central: ariw (bcl)
Bulgarian: са́жди (bg) f pl (sáždi)
Burmese: ကျပ်ခိုး (my) (kyaphkui:)
Catalan: estalzí (ca), sutge (ca) m, sutja (ca) f
Central Melanau: punyuong, arouk
Chichewa: mwaye
Chinese:
Mandarin: 油煙／油烟 (zh) (yóuyān)
Chuvash: хӑрӑм (hărăm)
Czech: saze (cs) f pl
Dutch: roet (nl) n, zoet (nl) n, rookzwart n
Esperanto: fulgo (eo)
Faroese: sót n, ím n
Finnish: noki (fi), kimröökki (fi)
French: suie (fr) f
Friulian: frusìn m
Galician: feluxe f, sarrio (gl) m, parruma f
Georgian: ჭვარტლი (č̣varṭli), მური (muri)
German: Ruß (de) m, Swiss spelling: Russ (de) m
Alemannic German: Ruus m
Greek: αιθάλη (el) f (aitháli)
Ancient: ἄσβολος m (ásbolos), αἴθαλος f (aíthalos), ψόλος m (psólos)
Hebrew: פִּיחַ‎ m (píach)
Hungarian: korom (hu)
Iban: arok
Irish: súiche m
Italian: fuliggine (it), caligine (it) f
Japanese: 煤 (ja) (すす, susu)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Komi-Permyak: са (sa)
Komi-Zyrian: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 숯 (ko) (sut)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latgalian: kvāps m
Latin: fūlīgō
Latvian: sodrēji m pl, kvēpi m pl
Laz: წოლა (ǯola)
Lithuanian: súodžiai m pl
Macedonian: саѓа f (saǵa), саѓи pl (saǵi), гареж m (garež)
Malay: jelaga, sulang, sulang asap, arang pagu, arang para-para
Manx: sooie f
Maori: ahowhare, awe, kūkāwhare
Middle English: soot
Negidal: нуксэ
Ngazidja Comorian: misizi class 4
Northern Sami: giehpa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sot m or f or n
Nynorsk: sot f or n
Occitan: suèja (oc)
Okinawan: 煤 (しーし, shīshi)
Old English: sōt n
Plautdietsch: Room n
Polish: sadza (pl) f, kopeć (pl) m
Portuguese: fuligem (pt) f
Romanian: funingine (ro)
Russian: са́жа (ru) f (sáža), ко́поть (ru) f (kópotʹ)
Sami:
Kildin Sami: коажь (kåž’)
Scottish Gaelic: sùith f
Serbo-Croatian: čađ (sh), ча̑ђ f
Slovak: sadza (sk) f
Slovene: saje f pl
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: caze pl
Upper Sorbian: please add this translation if you can
Southern Altai: курун (kurun)
Spanish: hollín (es) m
Swahili: masizi
Swedish: sot (sv) n
Tagalog: uling-aso
Thai: เขม่า (th)
Turkish: is (tr)
Udi: моъгъ (mo̱ɣ)
Udmurt: су (su)
Ukrainian: са́жа f (sáža), кі́поть f (kípotʹ), кі́птява (uk) f (kíptjava)
Venetian: całùzxene f
Vietnamese: lọ (vi), nghẹ (vi), muội (vi), nhọ (vi)
Volapük: sut (vo)
Welsh: huddygl m, parddu m, swta (cy) m
West Frisian: roet, ruot
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
Yonaguni: 煤 (ちち, chichi)

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[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:
  soot land

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “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

Oost, SOTO, Soto, Toso, otos, soto

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

soeth, sood, soote, sot, sote, soth, soyte, suotte
sude, sute (Northern)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /soːt/

Noun

soot (uncountable)

soot

Derived terms

sooty

Descendants

English: soot
Scots: suit, sute
Yola: zoot

References

“sọ̄t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

Etymology 2

From Old English swōt.

Adjective

soot

Alternative form of swete

[1] Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “soot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

[2] 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.