representing the adj. or sb. in various obsolete combs., as soothhead, truth, verity; soothquide, a true word or saying, a truth; a proverb; soothright(s adv., truly, verily; soothsaȝel a., truthful, veracious; soothship, truth; soothsinger (see quot.); soothtell a., soothsaying.
1340. Ayenb., 105. Þet uerste word ous sseweþ þe langnesse of his eurebleuinge;… þe þridde: þe dyepnesse of his *zoþhede.
c. 888. K. Ælfred, Boeth., v. § 3. Sona swa hit forlæt *soðcwidas, swa folʓaþ hit leasspellunga.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., John x. 6. Ðis soðcuido vel ʓedd cuæð ðæm se hælend.
c. 1205. Lay., 9524. Þa cnihtes … cudden him soð quides from Claudien þæm kæisere. Ibid. (c. 1275), 13470. Ich wolle telle ou *soþrihtes. Ibid., 19068. Nas þar na more sohriht bote þat hit was day-liht.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xvii. (1890), 206. Ic, swa swa *soðsaʓal stærwritere [etc.].
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 131. Un-liȝel man selde liȝeð, and soðsaȝel man seið ofte soð.
c. 1320. Cast. Love, 1020. Ȝif he lyueþ in loue and in boxumnesse, In *soþschupe and in rihtwysnes.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 24. Who is an Inchanter? A *soothsinger, by canting numbers; or a soothsayer, by calculating numbers.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 108. Now *sothtel Apollo … A menacing message … vttred.
