sùith
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
- (Gairloch) sùthaidh
- saoith
- sùidh
- sùigh
- sùithe
Etymology
From Old Irish súith (compare Welsh huddygl).
Noun
sùith m
- soot
- neul an t-sùith ― the colour of soot
Verb
sùith (past shùith, future sùithidh, verbal noun sùitheadh, past participle sùithte)
- soot (cover with soot)
- season or dry in smoke
Derived terms
- dromlach suith (“gall”) (Arran)
- sileadh-sùith (“rain percolating through the sooty thatch of a house and falling in large black drops indelibly staining everything it comes in contact with”) (Caithness)
- sùith-bhalach (“chimney sweep”)
- sùith dubh (“the black sooty drops that fall from the inside of a thatched roof after a rain storm”)
- sùitheach (“sooty, full of soot”)
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “sùith”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)