How do you pronounce soot?

The recorded pronunciation is /suːt/.

Where does soot come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

soot

/suːt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English

Syllables: soot
IPA: /suːt/

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Meaning

noun

Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

Uncountable

verb

To cover or dress with soot.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"soot land"

Etymology

Inherited 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”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and 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)).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *sed-, soot,soote,sote,sot, sōt, *sōtą

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Chemistry.

Inflected Forms

soots (plural) soots (present, singular) sooting (participle, present) sooted (participle, past) sooted (past)

Derived Forms

besoot sootbag sootball sooted sooten sooterkin sootflake sootish sootless sootlike sootproof sooty

Phrases

soot blower soot devil soot-oh soot-proof soot wart carbon black

Frequently Paired Words

carbon black

Synonyms

lampblack carbon black smut crock

Homonyms

suit (Scotland, Northern Ireland, foot-goose merger)

Rhymes With

put foot afoot foote underfoot caput pussyfoot root ut biscuit toot kaput