soot
To cover or dress with sootTo cover or dress with soot.
» Tom was covered in soot.
Meaning
1 sensesTo cover or dress with soot.
coat with soot
Examples
15 sentencesTom was covered in soot.
Snow is white, soot is black.
ruСнег белый, сажа чёрная.
His face was full of soot.
Snow is white, but soot is black.
ruСнег белый, а сажа чёрная.
deSchnee ist weiß, aber Ruß ist schwarz.
The soot, which had not been disturbed for centuries, showered down the huge chimneys.
deDer Ruß, seit Jahrhunderten ungestört, prasselte die gewaltigen Schlote hinab.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-GerInherited 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)).
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Forms
soots, sooting, sooted, sootedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle