Soot in the Saami and Germanic languages

This paper examines the Scandinavian terminology for ‘soot’ in connection with a number of Saami appellatives view to deciding which them are native and result from borrowing. Special attention is paid problem adopting loanwords Northern Europe, especially Peninsula. Two Proto- Germanic words denoting discussed morphological etymological point view. It suggested that West noun *hrōta- m./n. closely related PG. *sōta- n. ‘soot’, which, turn, derived Proto-Indo- European verbal root *sed- ‘to sit’. The present authors intend demonstrate WG. derives Indo-European archetype *ku̯u-sōdo- ‘bad soot; thick layer soot’, originally ‘what soot!’. original semantic distinction between seems be preserved use two independent Saamic loanwords, cf. Saa.N suohtti ‘soot (in chimney)’ ruohtti ‘big soot’. remaining under analysis include čađđa ‘charcoal, soot’ (< Proto-Saamic *će̮δe̮ ‘carbon, charcoal, soot, grime’ < Ur. *ćüδ́i ‘coal, charcoal’), giehpa PSaa. *kēpe̮ ‘id.’, probably Proto-Baltic loanword) gožu ~ gohčču- ‘soot, deposit smoke or soot on things near fireplace’ *kočɔ̄j ‘soot’). Establishing etymologies this rich concerning significant gradual change lifestyle nomadic hunter-gatherer one towards nonperipatetic community reliant farming, animal husbandry fishing.