sùith

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish súith (compare Welsh huddygl).

Noun

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sùith m

  1. soot
    neul an t-sùiththe colour of soot

Verb

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

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

Derived terms

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  • 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

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  • 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