Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cover or dress with soot.
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)).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*sed-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsoot,soote,sote,sotenm
- Inherited-form mentionsōtang
- Inherited-form mention*sōtągem-pro · soot
- Derivation mention*sed-ine-pro · to sit
- Cognate mentionzoetnl · soot
- Cognate mentionsodda · soot
- Cognate mentionsótis · soot
- Cognate mentionsuidesga
- Cognate mentionsúodžiailt
- Cognate mention*saďasla-pro
- Cognate mentionса́жаru
- Cognate mentionsadzask
- Cognate mentionса́ждаbg
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