Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : DEW

√DEW root. “go wrong, fail”

√DEW root. “go wrong, fail”

A Sindarin-only root in linguistic notes from 1959 meaning “go wrong, fail” with the basic sense of “miss mark, go (or send) wrong, fall short or beside ([one’s] aim, what is due or proper)” (PE17/151); in a marginal note Tolkien also wrote “go awry, ill, wrongly”. Its Quenya equivalent was √LOY.

Reference ✧ PE17/151 ✧ DEWE “go wrong, fail”

DEWE “go wrong, fail” approximately same sense as LOYO “go wrong, fail” ✧ PE17/151
DEW “go wrong, fail” may replace ᴹ√(N)DEW “follow, come behind”

Derivatives

> ✶deulē “mistake” ✧ PE17/151
- > S. dŷl “mistake” ✧ PE17/151
> S. #dew- “to fail, miss” ✧ PE17/151; PE17/151
> S. dŷr “mistaken, off point, not right” ✧ PE17/151
- ⇒ S. dýgar “mistaken act; doing a wrong thing” ✧ PE17/151