soot

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• /suːt/
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• /sʊt/ increasingly more common in yod-dropping dialects to distinguish soot from suit
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• Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /sʉt/
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• dialectal: /sʌt/
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• rhymes with -ʊt
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• rhymes with -uːt
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• homophone: suit (Scotland, Northern Ireland, foot-goose merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: S UH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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)).

142 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: blozë — fine black or dull brown particles
• Aleut: dix̂ — fine black or dull brown particles
• Southern Altai: курун (kurun) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Arabic: سُخَام (suḵām) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Aragonese: follín — fine black or dull brown particles
• Armenian: մուր (mur) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Aromanian: furidzinã — fine black or dull brown particles
• Aromanian: fulidzini — fine black or dull brown particles
• Azerbaijani: his — fine black or dull brown particles
• Azerbaijani: qurum — fine black or dull brown particles
• Bashkir: ҡором (qorom) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Basque: kedar — fine black or dull brown particles
• Belarusian: са́жа (sáža) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Belarusian: ку́рава (kúrava) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Belarusian: ко́паць (kópacʹ) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Central Bikol: ariw — fine black or dull brown particles
• Bulgarian: са́жди (sáždi) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Burmese: ကျပ်ခိုး (kyaphkui:) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Catalan: estalzí — fine black or dull brown particles
• Catalan: sutge — fine black or dull brown particles
• Catalan: sutja — fine black or dull brown particles
• Chichewa: mwaye — fine black or dull brown particles
• Chinese Mandarin: 油煙 /油烟 (yóuyān) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Chuvash: хӑрӑм (hărăm) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ngazidja Comorian: misizi — fine black or dull brown particles
• Czech: saze — fine black or dull brown particles
• Old Czech: sazě — fine black or dull brown particles
• Danish: sod — fine black or dull brown particles
• Dutch: roet — fine black or dull brown particles
• Dutch: zoet — fine black or dull brown particles
• Dutch: rookzwart — fine black or dull brown particles
• Esperanto: fulgo — fine black or dull brown particles
• Estonian: tahm — fine black or dull brown particles
• Estonian: nõgi — fine black or dull brown particles
• Faroese: sót — fine black or dull brown particles
• Faroese: ím — fine black or dull brown particles
• Finnish: noki — fine black or dull brown particles
• French: suie — fine black or dull brown particles
• West-Frisian: roet — fine black or dull brown particles
• West-Frisian: ruot — fine black or dull brown particles
• Friulian: frusìn — fine black or dull brown particles
• Galician: feluxe — fine black or dull brown particles
• Galician: sarrio — fine black or dull brown particles
• Galician: parruma — fine black or dull brown particles
• Georgian: ჭვარტლი (č̣varṭli) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Georgian: მური (muri) — fine black or dull brown particles
• German: Ruß — fine black or dull brown particles
• German: Russ — fine black or dull brown particles
• German: Ruus — fine black or dull brown particles
• Bavarian German: Ruass — fine black or dull brown particles
• Greek: αιθάλη (aitháli) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ancient Greek: ἄσβολος (ásbolos) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ancient Greek: αἴθαλος (aíthalos) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ancient Greek: ψόλος (psólos) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Hebrew: פִּיחַ (píach) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Hungarian: korom — fine black or dull brown particles
• Iban: arok — fine black or dull brown particles
• Irish: súiche — fine black or dull brown particles
• Italian: fuliggine — fine black or dull brown particles
• Italian: caligine — fine black or dull brown particles
• Japanese: 煤 (susu) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Kazakh: құрым (qūrym) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Kazakh: күйе (küye) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Komi-Permyak: са (sa) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Korean: 그을음 (geueureum) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Northern Kurdish: tenî — fine black or dull brown particles
• Latgalian: kvāps — fine black or dull brown particles
• Latin: fūlīgō — fine black or dull brown particles
• Latvian: sodrēji — fine black or dull brown particles
• Latvian: kvēpi — fine black or dull brown particles
• Laz: წოლა (ǯola) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Lithuanian: súodžiai — fine black or dull brown particles
• Macedonian: саѓа (saǵa) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Macedonian: саѓи (saǵi) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Macedonian: гареж (garež) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Malay: jelaga — fine black or dull brown particles
• Malay: sulang — fine black or dull brown particles
• Malay: sulang asap — fine black or dull brown particles
• Malay: arang pagu — fine black or dull brown particles
• Malay: arang para-para — fine black or dull brown particles
• Manx: sooie — fine black or dull brown particles
• Māori: ahowhare — fine black or dull brown particles
• Māori: awe — fine black or dull brown particles
• Māori: kūkāwhare — fine black or dull brown particles
• Marathi: काजळी (kājḷī) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Central Melanau: punyuong — fine black or dull brown particles
• Central Melanau: arouk — fine black or dull brown particles
• Middle English: soot — fine black or dull brown particles
• Mongolian: хөө тортог (xöö tortog) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Negidal: нуксэ — fine black or dull brown particles
• Norwegian Bokmål: sot — fine black or dull brown particles
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sot — fine black or dull brown particles
• Occitan: suèja — fine black or dull brown particles
• Okinawan: 煤 (shīshi) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Old English: sōt — fine black or dull brown particles
• Plautdietsch: Room — fine black or dull brown particles
• Polish: sadza — fine black or dull brown particles
• Polish: kopeć — fine black or dull brown particles
• Portuguese: fuligem — fine black or dull brown particles
• Romanian: funingine — fine black or dull brown particles
• Russian: са́жа (sáža) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Russian: ко́поть (kópotʹ) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Kildin-Sami: коажь (kåž’) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Northern Sami: giehpa — fine black or dull brown particles
• Scottish Gaelic: sùith — fine black or dull brown particles
• Serbo-Croatian: čađa — fine black or dull brown particles
• Serbo-Croatian: ча̑ђ — fine black or dull brown particles
• Slovak: sadza — fine black or dull brown particles
• Slovene: saje — fine black or dull brown particles
• Lower Sorbian: caze — fine black or dull brown particles
• Spanish: hollín — fine black or dull brown particles
• Spanish: tizne — fine black or dull brown particles
• Spanish: negrumo — fine black or dull brown particles
• Spanish: tile — fine black or dull brown particles
• Swahili: masizi — fine black or dull brown particles
• Swedish: sot — fine black or dull brown particles
• Tagalog: uling-aso — fine black or dull brown particles
• Lower Tanana: t'asr thoya' — fine black or dull brown particles
• Tatar: корым (qorım) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Thai: เขม่า (kà-mào) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Turkish: is — fine black or dull brown particles
• Turkish: kurum — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ottoman Turkish: ایس (is) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ottoman Turkish: قوروم (kurum) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Udi: моъгъ (mo̱ɣ) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Udmurt: су (su) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ukrainian: са́жа (sáža) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ukrainian: кі́поть (kípotʹ) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Ukrainian: кі́птява (kíptjava) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Uyghur: قۇرۇم (qurum) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Uzbek: qurum — fine black or dull brown particles
• Venetan: całùzxene — fine black or dull brown particles
• Vietnamese: lọ — fine black or dull brown particles
• Vietnamese: nghẹ — fine black or dull brown particles
• Vietnamese: muội — fine black or dull brown particles
• Vietnamese: nhọ — fine black or dull brown particles
• Volapük: sut — fine black or dull brown particles
• Welsh: huddygl — fine black or dull brown particles
• Welsh: parddu — fine black or dull brown particles
• Welsh: tropas — fine black or dull brown particles
• Yakut: курунньук (kurunňuk) — fine black or dull brown particles
• Yonaguni: 煤 (chichi) — fine black or dull brown particles