What is sooth?

Sooth is a word that can mean multiple things depending on the context.

As a verb, "soothe" means to calm or relieve someone's emotional distress or physical pain.

As a noun, "sooth" refers to truth or the truthfulness of a statement. It is often used in the phrase "in sooth," which means "in truth."

In Old English, "soth" was used as an adjective to mean true or genuine. The "e" at the end of the word was added later to form "soothe" as a verb.