soot

See also: Soot

English

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/

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• 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.

Synonyms

• lampblack

Derived terms

• sootball
• soot blower
• soot devil
• sooted
• sootless
• sootlike
• soot-oh
• sootproof
• soot wart
• sooty

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-‎ (0 c, 64 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
• Danish: sod (da)
• Dutch: roet (nl) n, zoet (nl) n, rookzwart n
• Esperanto: fulgo (eo)
• Faroese: sót n, ím n
• Finnish: noki (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)
• Kazakh: құрым (qūrym)
• 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)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tenî (ku) f

• 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
• Ottoman Turkish: ایس‎ (is), قوروم‎ (kurum)
• 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
• Tatar: корым (tt) (qorım)
• Thai: เขม่า (th)
• Turkish: is (tr), kurum (tr)
• Udi: моъгъ (mo̱ɣ)
• Udmurt: су (su)
• Ukrainian: са́жа f (sáža), кі́поть f (kípotʹ), кі́птява (uk) f (kíptjava)
• Uyghur: قۇرۇم‎‎ (qurum‎)
• Uzbek: qurum (uz)
• 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
• Yakut: курунньук (kurunnyuk)
• 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)

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[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:

     soot land

See also

• carbon black

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)

1. 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

1. Alternative form of swete