soot

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  • From Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Cognate with dated Dutch zoet, German Low German Soot, Danish sod, Swedish sot, Icelandic sót. Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide ("soot") and : Lithuanian súodžiai ("soot"), and Proto-Slavic *saďa ("soot") (Russian са́жа, Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда).

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