soot

See also: Soot

English

Etymology

Inherited 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): /suːt/, /sʊt/ (increasingly more common in yod-dropping dialects to distinguish soot from suit)
(Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /sʉt/
(now dialectal) IPA^(key): /sʌt/^[2]
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt
Homophone: suit (Scotland, Northern Ireland, foot-goose merger)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed- (0 c, 141 e)

Translations

fine black or dull brown particles

Albanian: blozë (sq) f
Aleut: dix̂
Altai:
Southern Altai: курун (kurun)
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
Belarusian: са́жа f (sáža), ку́рава n (kúrava), ко́паць f (kópacʹ)
Bikol:
Central Bikol: ariw (bcl)
Bulgarian: са́жди (bg) f pl (sáždi)
Burmese: ကျပ်ခိုး (my) (kyaphkui:)
Catalan: estalzí (ca), sutge (ca) m, sutja (ca) f
Chichewa: mwaye
Chinese:
Mandarin: 油煙 / 油烟 (zh) (yóuyān)
Chuvash: хӑрӑм (hărăm)
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: misizi class 4
Czech: saze (cs) f pl
Old Czech: sazě f
Danish: sod (da)
Dutch: roet (nl) n, zoet (nl) n, rookzwart n
Esperanto: fulgo (eo)
Estonian: tahm (fine grit powder), nõgi (inky, tarry substance)
Faroese: sót n, ím n
Finnish: noki (fi)
French: suie (fr) f
Frisian:
West Frisian: roet, ruot
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

Bavarian: Ruass
Greek: αιθάλη (el) f (aitháli)
Ancient Greek: 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), күйе (küye)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: са (sa)

Komi-Zyrian: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 그을음 (geueureum)
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
Māori: ahowhare, awe, kūkāwhare
Marathi: काजळी f (kājḷī)
Melanau:
Central Melanau: punyuong, arouk
Middle English: soot
Mongolian: хөө тортог (xöö tortog)
Negidal: нуксэ
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’)

Northern Sami: giehpa
Scottish Gaelic: sùith f
Serbo-Croatian: čađa (sh), ча̑ђ f
Slovak: sadza (sk) f
Slovene: saje (sl) f pl
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: caze pl

Upper Sorbian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: hollín (es) m, tizne (es) m or f, negrumo m, tile m
Swahili: masizi (sw)
Swedish: sot (sv) n
Tagalog: uling-aso
Tanana:
Lower Tanana: t'asr thoya'
Tatar: корым (tt) (qorım)
Thai: เขม่า (th) (kà-mào)
Turkish: is (tr), kurum (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: ایس (is), قوروم (kurum)
Udi: моъгъ (mo̱ɣ)
Udmurt: су (su)
Ukrainian: са́жа f (sáža), кі́поть f (kípotʹ), кі́птява (uk) f (kíptjava)
Uyghur: قۇرۇم (qurum)
Uzbek: qurum (uz)
Venetan: całùzxene f
Vietnamese: lọ (vi), nghẹ (vi), muội (vi), nhọ (vi)
Volapük: sut (vo)
Welsh: huddygl m, parddu m, tropas (cy) m
Yakut: курунньук (kurunňuk)
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
Yonaguni: 煤 (ちち, chichi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} woogarrâ-bil

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. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
  soot land

References

^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “soot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎^[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 11.67, page 335.

Anagrams

Toso, SOTO, otos, soto, Oost, Soto, OOTS

Jawe

Verb

soot

to grab, grip

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