sùith

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• (Gairloch) sùthaidh
• saoith
• sùidh
• sùigh
• sùithe

Etymology

From Old Irish súith (compare Welsh huddygl).

Noun

sùith m

1. soot
   • neul an t-sùith ― the colour of soot

Verb

sùith (past shùith, future sùithidh, verbal noun sùitheadh, past participle sùithte)

1. soot (cover with soot)
2. 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 dubh (“the black sooty drops that fall from the inside of a thatched roof after a rain storm”)
• sùith-bhalach (“chimney sweep”)
• sùitheach (“sooty, full of soot”)

 

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “sùith”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)