Early Noldorin
gwesg
adverb. weakly
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Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
gwesg
adverb. weakly
A word appearing as ᴱN. gwesg “weakly” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/146). This is the only Elvish word in the published corpus associated with weakness without extra connotations.
Neo-Sindarin: I would retain this word as ᴺS. gwesg and would further assume it can be used as both an adjective “✱weak” as well as an adverb “weakly”. It is not clear what its etymology would be in Tolkien’s later conception of the languages, however (< √WESEK?)