Tir

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tir- is a Quenya verb meaning "watch, guard, heed". Compare with the Sindarin noun tirith.

Examples:

palantíri = "Watch Far and Wide" (colloquially translated as "Seeing-stones")
Tirion = "[City of] the Watchers"

References

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel
Quenya Corpus Wordlist edited by Helge Fauskanger

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Quenya verbs