sùith

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Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish súith (compare Welsh huddygl).

Noun[edit]

sùith m

  1. soot
    neul an t-sùith ― the colour of soot

Verb[edit]

sùith (past shùith, future sùithidh, verbal noun sùitheadh, past participle sùithte)

  1. soot (cover with soot)
  2. season or dry in smoke

Derived terms[edit]

  • dromlach suith (“gall”) (Arran)
  • sileadh-sùith (“rain percolating through the sooty thatch of a house and falling in large black drops indelibly staining everything it comes in contact with”) (Caithness)
  • sùith dubh (“the black sooty drops that fall from the inside of a thatched roof after a rain storm”)
  • sùith-bhalach (“chimney sweep”)
  • sùitheach (“sooty, full of soot”)

Further reading[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “sùith”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
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