English
soothful
From sooth + -ful.
Formed from sooth + -ful
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- ‘to be’
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Proto-Germanic *sanþaz ‘truth’
Proto-West Germanic *sanþ ‘true’
Old English sōþ ‘truth’
Middle English sooth
English sooth
Today it means
adj soothing
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “soothful”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / soothful