sooth
/suːθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad."
- "[…] "O Eginhard, disclose The meaning and the mystery of the rose"; And trembling he made answer: "In good sooth, Its mystery is love, its meaning youth!""
- "The sooth of birds, by beating of their wings."
- "The soothest shepherd that e'er pip'd on plains"
- "With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; […]"
- "That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare."
Etymology
From Middle English sooth, from Old English sōþ (“truth; true, actual, real”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþ, from Proto-Germanic *sanþaz (“truth; true”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts, *h₁s-ont- (“being, existence, real, true”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). Akin to Old Saxon sōþ (“true”), Old High German sand (“true”), Old Norse sannr (“true”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰 (sunja, “truth”), Old English synn (“sin, guilt"; literally, "being the one guilty”). More at sin. See also soothe, derived from the same Old English word.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₁es-, sooth, sōþ, *sanþ, *sanþaz, *h₁sónts