tir-

watch, watch over, guard, heed

tir- vb. "watch, watch over, guard, heed", 1st pers. aorist tirin "I watch", pa.t. tirnë (TIR), imperative tira (VT47:31) or á tirë (PE17:94), future tense tiruva "shall heed" in Markirya (also MC:213, 214); also in CO with pronominal endings: tiruvantes "they will guard it" (tir-uva-nte-s "guard-will-they-it"). The stem also occurs in palantíri (q.v.), Tirion place-name "Great Watchtower", a city of the Elves (SA:tir; in MR:176 the translation is "Watchful City")

tir-

verb. to watch (over), guard, heed; to look (at), gaze, observe, to watch (over), guard, heed; to look (at), gaze, observe; [ᴱQ.] to keep, preserve

Derivations

• √TIR “watch (over), look at, observe, gaze at, watch (over), look at, observe, gaze at; [ᴹ√] guard” ✧ PE22/155; SA/tir

Element in

• Q. á tirë antírië “watch more closely, observe more attentively” ✧ PE17/094; PE17/094
• Q. Elentir “*Star-gazer”
• ᴺQ. ettir- “to watch out, spy on”
• ᴺQ. ettirno “spy”
• ᴺQ. fennatir “door-watcher”
• Q. Hyarmentir “*South Watch”
• Q. man tiruva fána cirya? “Who shall heed a white ship?” ✧ MC/222
• Q. man tiruva rácina cirya? “Who shall heed a broken ship?” ✧ MC/222
• Q. Minastir “?Watch Tower”
• Q. nai tiruvantes i hárar mahalmassen mi Númen “in the keeping of those who sit upon thrones of the West” ✧ UT/305
• Q. nattir- “to look back”
• Q. Palantir “Far-sighted”
• Q. palantir- “to watch/look afar” ✧ PE17/086
• Q. palantír “far-gazer, far-seer, (lit.) that which looks far away” ✧ PE17/025
• Q. tirila “watching (something)” ✧ PE22/155
• ᴺQ. tirmen “theater”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√TIR > tirila	[tinwe]	✧ PE22/155
√tir > tir	[tinwe]	✧ SA/tir

Variations

• tir ✧ SA/tir

tiris

watch, vigil

tiris (tiriss-), also tirissë, noun "watch, vigil" (LT1:258, QL:93)

cenda-

watch

cenda- vb. "watch" (not "guard", but observe to gain information), also used = "read". Cenda = also noun "reading", as in sanwecenda "thought-inspection, thought-reading". (VT41:5, PE17:156)