uthu

root. bad; unsuitable; improper, useless, wrong; [wrong] with a bad sense

This root appeared in a page of roots from Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959 with the gloss “unsuitable, bad, improper, useless, wrong” (PE17/172). This page was rejected, but the root √UTHU appeared again later in DLN as the basis for prefixes meaning wrong “with a general bad sense”: Q. us- and S. oth- as in S. othgarn “misdeed” and Q. uskare > Q. uxarë of the same meaning (PE17/151).

Derivatives

• Q. us- “[wrong] with a bad sense; unsuitable, bad, improper, useless, wrong” ✧ PE17/151; PE17/172
• S. oth- “[wrong] with a bad sense; unsuitable, bad, improper, useless, wrong” ✧ PE17/151; PE17/172

Element in

• ᴺQ. ustat- “to misappropriate, supplant, usurp”