different between soot vs besmut

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)

1. 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)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. 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.

English

Etymology

From be- +? smut. Compare Old English besmittian (“to pollute, defile”).

Verb

besmut (third-person singular simple present besmuts, present participle besmutting, simple past and past participle besmutted)

1. (transitive) To blacken with smut; foul with soot.