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. — marafon
His face was full of soot.
Snow is white, but soot is black.
ruСнег белый, а сажа чёрная. — Selena777
deSchnee ist weiß, aber Ruß ist schwarz. — Yorwba
The soot, which had not been disturbed for centuries, showered down the huge chimneys.
deDer Ruß, seit Jahrhunderten ungestört, prasselte die gewaltigen Schlote hinab. — Yorwba
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