soot

Meanings

Plural: soots

Noun

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

Verb

coat with soot
To cover or dress with soot.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited 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”), 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)).

Synonyms

carbon black, crock, lampblack, smut

Scrabble Score: 4

soot is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
soot is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
soot is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

soot is a valid Words With Friends word