different between soot vs coom

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 1

Related to Icelandic kámugur.

Noun

coom (uncountable)

1. soot, smut
2. dust
3. grease

Etymology 2

See come.

Verb

coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past and past participle coomed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of come.
   • 1838–1839, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII, page 411:

     “Not a bit,” replied the Yorkshireman, extending his mouth from ear to ear. “There I lay, snoog in schoolmeasther’s bed long efther it was dark, and nobody coom nigh the pleace. ‘Weel!’ thinks I, ‘he’s got a pretty good start, and if he bean’t whoam by noo, he never will be; so you may coom as quick as you loike, and foind us reddy’—that is, you know, schoolmeasther might coom.”

Etymology 3

Noun

coom (plural cooms)

1. (Scotland) The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
2. (Scotland) Anything arched or vaulted.

Derived terms

• coom-ceiled

Anagrams

• COMO, Como, MOOC, MoCo, moco