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soot

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Etymology edit

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)).

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Noun edit

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.

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-‎ (0 c, 65 e)

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Verb edit

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

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References edit

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “soot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 11.67, page 335.

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soot

  1. to grab, grip

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  • 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

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Etymology 1 edit

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

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soot (uncountable)

  1. soot
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  • English: soot
  • Scots: suit, sute
  • Yola: zoot
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Etymology 2 edit

From Old English swōt.

Adjective edit

soot

  1. Alternative form of swete
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