to be on the wrong track · to be up a blind alley · to bark up the wrong tree
çekim: geçmiş war auf dem Holzweg · ortaç auf dem Holzweg gewesen · şimdiki ist auf dem Holzweg · ulaç auf dem Holzweg seiend
eş: sich auf dem Holzweg befinden
köken: Literally, “to be on the woodway”, originally referring to a path used for transporting logwood out of a forest, and leading nowhere in particular when following into.
köken: Borrowed from English blunder, from Middle English blonder, blundur (“disturbance, strife”), from Old Norse blunda (“to shut the eyes”). Related to blind.
köken: Inherited from Hellenistic Koine Greek λάθος (láthos, “escaping detection”), with stem λαθ-, from the aorist of Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to escape notice, to forget”), from *leh₂- (“to be hidden, be covered”).
köken: See Norwegian feil and Danish fejl. Used in Swedish at least since 1527. For the adverb, the now obsolete form felt was the dominant written form until the mid 19th century.
error, mistake (state, quality, or condition of being wrong) · error, mistake (something that brings undesired effects) · error, mistake (wrong action, move; bad habit)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás Proto-Slavic *blǫ̑dъ Old Polish błąd Polish błąd Inherited from Old Polish błąd.