Qenya
tiriste
noun. *watch, guard
tiristemindon
place name. Minas Tirith
tiristemindon hame ondoresse
Minas Tirith is/stands/is situated in Gondor
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A Quenya translation of Minas Tirith in linguistic notes from the 1940s (PE22/125). Its final element is clearly mindon “tower”, so its initial element tiriste most likely means, “watch, guard” as an abstraction of the verb tir- “to watch”.