tirmo
noun. watcher
Minastir
tower-watcher
Minastir masc. name, noun *"Tower-watcher" (Appendix A)
elentirmo
masculine name. Star-watcher
sanyetirno
noun. police officer, policeman, (lit.) law-watcher
fennatir
noun. door-watcher
halatir
kingsfisher
halatir (halatirn-, as in dat.sg. halatirnen), also halatirno, noun "kingsfisher", etymologically "fish-watcher" (TIR, SKAL2, KHAL1)
tirn
noun. watcher
heledir(n)
noun. kingsfisher, (lit.) fish-watcher
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s for a kingfisher derived from primitive ᴹ✶khalatirnō̆ “fish watcher” with variants heledir and heledirn (Ety/KHAL¹, SKAL², TIR). Tolkien also considered and rejected the form haledir without i-affection (EtyAC/KHAL¹).
gwahaedir
proper name. ?Far Watcher
tirn
watcher
tirn (i dirn, o thirn, also -dir at the end of compounds), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thirn). "”, the literal meaning of a word translated SPY (q.v.)
tirn
watcher
(i** dirn, o thirn, also -dir at the end of compounds), no distinct pl. form except with article (i** thirn). "
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halatir(no)
noun. kingsfisher, (lit.) fish-watcher
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as halatir(no) “fish-watcher, kingsfisher”, a combination of ᴹQ. hala “fish” and an agental form ᴹQ. tirno “watcher” of the root ᴹ√TIR “watch” (Ety/SKAL², TIR). Fish-watcher is the literal translation of the name, and kingfisher is the name of the terrestrial species.
khalatirnō̆
noun. fish watcher
tirnō̆ Reconstructed
noun. watcher
@@@ a noun formed from the verb tir- “to watch” with the agental suffix -mo.