palantír noun *"Far-seer", used = "Seeing Stone" (pl. palantíri is attested); see palan-. The form palantir (with a short i) appears in Letters:110.
Quenya
palan
adverb/adjective. far (and wide), afar, distant, far (and wide), afar, distant; [ᴹQ.] to a great extent, over a wide space, to a distance
palantír
far-seer
palla
wide, expansive
palla adj. "wide, expansive" (PAL)
Palarran
far-wanderer
Palarran ship-name "Far-wanderer"; see palan
haia
adverb. afar, afar, [ᴹQ.] far (off), far away
The adverb ᴹQ. hāya “far off, far away” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KHAYA “far, distant, remote” (Ety/KHAYA; EtyAC/KHAYA). It reappeared as haiya “far” in a phrase from the Lament of Atalante of the 1940s: haiya vahaiya sín Atalante “far far away now (is) the Downfallen” (SD/247). It appeared again as haia in the first draft of Löa Yucainen from 1958: Ai loar melle yassen ekkennen haia palantírielya yárie andavanwer “Alas beloved years in which looking afar I saw in the distance the ages long-departed” (CPT/1296). It is likely that háya, haiya, and haia are just variant spellings of the same word; compare Máya, Maiya vs. Maia.
haiya
far
haiya adj. "far" (SD:247). Also háya.
háya
far off, far away
háya adj. "far off, far away" (KHAYA). Also haiya.
landa
wide
landa (2) adj. "wide" (LAD). Maybe in landatavárë = *"wide-wood"? (TI:415)
yanda
wide
yanda adj. "wide" (PE17:115); variant of yána #1, q.v.
yonda
wide, roomy, extensive
yonda adj."wide, roomy, extensive" (PE17:43), also (as alternative form of yonna) glossed "enclosed", with the latter meaning perhaps intended as the passive participle of the verb yor-
landa
adjective. wide, wide, [ᴱQ.] broad
A word for “wide” appearing as an element in the compound landanóre “wide country” in the 1958 poem Löa Yucainen. ᴹQ. landa “wide” also appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√LAD (Ety/LAD).
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. landa “wide, broad” appeared all the way back in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s where it was derived from the early root ᴱ√LAŘA [LAÐA] (QL/51). In this document it also had an augmented form alanda of the same meaning (QL/34, 51), and this augmented alanda appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “wide” (PME/34).
yanda
adjective. wide
A Quenya word for “far and wide” appearing regularly in Tolkien’s writings, most notably in palantír “far gazer”. It was derived from the root √PAL “wide, broad, extended” (PE17/65; VT47/8; Ety/PAL). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien contrasted with word with ᴹQ. hāya “far off, far away”, saying that palan more properly means “wide, over a wide space, to a distance” (EtyAC/KHAYA). Thus palan is “far” in extent (far and wide) as opposed to haia which is “far” in distance only.