different between soot vs sootless
soot
English
Etymology
From Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English s?t, from Proto-Germanic *s?t? (“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 ?-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *sa?a (“soot”) (Russian ????? (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian ?????? (sážda)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?t/, /su?t/
- (now dialectal) IPA(key): /s?t/
- Rhymes: -?t, -u?t
- Homophone: suit (in some dialects)
Noun
soot (usually uncountable, plural soots)
- Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
Synonyms
- lampblack
Related terms
Translations
Verb
soot (third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted)
- (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.
See also
- carbon black
References
Anagrams
- Oost, SOTO, Soto, Toso, otos
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English sw?t.
Adjective
soot
- Alternative form of swete
Etymology 2
From Old English s?t, from Proto-Germanic *s?t?.
Alternative forms
- soote, sot, soth, suotte, soyte, sood, soeth, sote
- (Northern ME) sute, sude
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so?t/
Noun
soot (uncountable)
- soot
Derived terms
- sooty
Descendants
- English: soot
- Scots: suit, sute
References
- “s??t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.
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sootless
English
Etymology
soot +? -less
Adjective
sootless (not comparable)
- Without soot.
Antonyms
- sooty
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