gwahaedir

proper name. ?Far Watcher

Sindarin name of the palantír (PM/186 note #15), perhaps a compound of gwahae “?far away” and the lenited form of tir- “watch”.

Cognates

• Q. palantír “far-gazer, far-seer, (lit.) that which looks far away” ✧ PMI/Gwahaedir; PMI/Palantir; PM/186; PMI/Palantir

Element in

• S. Emyn Gwahaedir “Hills of the Palantír” ✧ PM/186 (Emyn Gwahaedir*); PMI/Gwahaedir

Elements

Word	Gloss
gwahae	“*far away”
tir-	“to look (towards), watch (over), guard, to look (towards), watch (over), guard; [G.] to look (out) for, watch for, await, expect”

gwachaedir

noun. seeing-stone, palantír

gwachae

away

1) (adj.) gwachae (remote), lenited wachae, no distinct pl. form. The form occurring in the primary source, #gwahae, must represent the late Gondorian pronunciantion with h for ch (PM:186, isolated from gwahaedir). 2) (adv.) e, ed (out, forth); also as adjectival prefix "outer" and preposition "out from, out of" (WJ:367)

gwachae

away

(remote), lenited ’wachae, no distinct pl. form. The form occurring in the primary source, #gwahae, must represent the late Gondorian pronunciantion with h for ch *(PM:186, isolated from gwahaedir)*.         

gwachae

far away

(remote), lenited ’wachae, no distinct pl. form. The form occurring in the primary source, #gwahae, must represent the late Gondorian pronunciantion with h for ch *(PM:186, isolated from gwahaedir)*.

e

away

ed (out, forth); also as adjectival prefix "outer" and preposition "out from, out of" (WJ:367)