Eldamo : Neo-Sindarin : gaug

ᴺS. [G.] ^gaug adj. “clumsy; ⚠️left (hand)” (Category: Weak, Infirm)

ᴺS. [G.] ^gaug, adj. “clumsy; ⚠️left (hand)” (Category: Weak, Infirm)

See G. gôg for discussion.

Cognates

ᴺQ. auqua “awkward, clumsy ⚠️(of things), difficult”

Derivations

< ^ᴺ✶GAWAK “clumsy”

G. gôg adj. “clumsy; left (hand)” (Category: Weak, Infirm)

An adjective appearing as G. gôg in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s meaning both “clumsy” and “left (hand)” (GL/40), probably related to ᴱQ. auk “clumsy fellow” and ᴱQ. auqa “awkward, clumsy” (QL/33). It was the opposite of G. fim “clever, right hand” (GL/35).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would adapt this word as ᴺS. gaug “clumsy” to have better consistency with the Quenya forms, but I would remove the association with left-handedness, since in Tolkien’s later conception the Elves were ambidextrous and had no association between right/left and good/bad (VT49/6-8).

Reference ✧ GL/40 ✧ “clumsy; left (hand)”

gôg “clumsy; left (hand)” opposite of fim ✧ GL/40
gôg “clumsy; left (hand)” might have become ᴱN. gagl “foolish”
ᴱN. gog¹ “nimble” vs. gôg “clumsy; left (hand)”

Cognates

ᴱQ. auk “fool, clumsy fellow”

Derivations

< *ᴱ✶ƷAWAKA “clumsy”