sùith

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

(Gairloch) sùthaidh
saoith
sùidh
sùigh
sùithe

Etymology

From Old Irish súith (compare Welsh huddygl).

Noun

sùith m

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

Verb

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

soot (cover with soot)
season or dry in smoke

Derived terms

Terms derived from sùith

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-bhalach (“chimney sweep”)
sùith dubh (“the black sooty drops that fall from the inside of a thatched roof after a rain storm”)

sùitheach (“sooty, full of soot”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

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