soot

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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

Verb

To cover or dress with soot.

Sinonieme

lampblack

smut

smoke

crock

carbon

ash

ashes

charcoal

dust

grime

dirt

carbon black

cinders

blight

lye

blackness

smudge

coals

colly

smutch

charcoal dust

coom

coal-dust

smoke-black

stripe blight

black carbon

sooty black

coal smoke

black

smoke from burning coal

ink

lamp

Vertalings

suie

Ruß

hollín

fuliggine

roet

tizne

fuligem

αιθάλη

sutge

estalzí

καπνιά

Russ

picumã

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/sʊt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: soot

Geërf van Old English: sōt

Verwante met Nederlands: zoet

Verwante met Deens: sod

Verwante met Sweeds: sot

Verwante met Yslands: sót

Verwante met Old Irish: suide

Verwante met Litaus: súodžiai

Verwante met Russies: са́жа

Verwante met Pools: -

Verwante met Slowaaks: sadza

Verwante met Bulgaars: са́жда

In summary

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”), 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)).