different between soot vs soo

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

Noun

soo (plural soos)

1. (Britain, dialect) sow

References

• “soo” in the Lancashire dialect, John Collier, 1822

Anagrams

• OOS, Oso, oos

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *soo (compare Finnish suo) but unknown beyond that. Possibly from Proto-Uralic *toxi (“lake”), the irregular development *t ? *s may have been motivated by avoidance of homonymy with the pronoun too.

Noun

soo (genitive soo, partitive sood)

1. swamp

Declension

See also

• raba
• lodu

Etymology 2

Noun

soo

1. genitive singular of sugu

Finnish

Alternative forms

• so

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?/, [?s?o??]
• Rhymes: -o?
• Syllabification: soo

Interjection

soo

1. (often repeated) tsk, tut-tut (expression of disapproval or holding back)

Usage notes

Most often repeated twice.

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soo. Cognates include Finnish suo and Estonian soo.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa, Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?so?/
• (Ylä-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /??u?/ (phonemic spelling: šuu)
  • Homophone: suu
• Hyphenation: soo

Noun

soo (genitive soon, partitive soota)

1. swamp

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 542
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2], page 163

Manx

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

soo (verbal noun soo, past participle sooit)

1. to soak, soak up, suck, extract
2. to preserve
3. to imbibe, tipple, sip
4. to sap
5. to jam
6. to blot (as paper)

Derived terms

• so-hoo

Noun

soo m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. verbal noun of soo
2. blotting, absorption
3. suction, sucking, soaking
4. tippling
5. exhaustion
6. extraction

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish sub, from Old Irish suib (“strawberry”), from Proto-Celtic *subi.

Noun

soo m (genitive singular soo, plural sooghyn)

1. berry

Derived terms

• soo crouw
• soo thallooin

Mutation

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sa?w, an innovation of the Khasian branch. Cognate with Khasi saw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so/

Numeral

soo

1. (cardinal) four

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so.u/

Verb

soo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of soar

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soo.

Noun

soo (genitive soo, partitive soot)

1. marsh

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "soo" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat