G. gwareth n. “watch, guard, ward; vigilance” (Category: to Save, Preserve, Keep Safe)
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “watch, guard, ward” based on the verb G. gwar- “watch” (GL/46-47), also translated “vigilance” in the Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin (PE15/27). Its most notable use is in the name Amon Gwareth “Hill of Watch” (LT2/158) which survived into The Silmarillion as published but without translation in Tolkien’s later writings (S/126; WJ/200).
References ✧ GL/47; LBI/Gwareth; LT2A/Amon Gwareth; PE15/20, 27
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| ’wareth | soft-mutation; gw-mutation | “vigilance” | ✧ PE15/20 |
Elements
| gwar-¹ | “to watch (all senses), guard” | ✧ GL/46; LT2A/Amon Gwareth |
| #-(o)th | “abstract noun” | ✧ GL/47 (#-eth) |
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