soot

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)).

• IPA^(key): /sʊt/, /suːt/
• (now dialectal) IPA^(key): /sʌt/[2]

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• Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt
• Homophone: suit (in some dialects)

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.

• lampblack

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

• carbon black

• Oost, SOTO, Soto, Toso, otos, soto

soot

1. to grab, grip

• 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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /soːt/

soot (uncountable)

1. soot

• sooty

• English: soot
• Scots: suit, sute
• Yola: zoot

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

From Old English swōt.

soot

1. Alternative form of swete