arato noun "a noble" (PE17:147), in PE17:118 given as aratō and there glossed "lord" (often = "king"). Cf. aráto. The form cited in the latter source, aratō with a long final vowel, is evidently very archaic (compare Enderō under Ender); later the vowel would become short. (PE17:118)
Quenya
aracáno
masculine name. High Chieftain
Cognates
- S. Argon ✧ PM/345; PMI/Arakáno
Variations
- Arakáno ✧ PM/345; PM/360; PMI/Arakáno; PMI/Fingolfin
arato
noble
Ara-
noble
Ara-, ar- a prefixed form of the stem Ara- "noble" (PM:344). In the masc. names Aracáno "high chieftain", mothername (amilessë, q.v.) of Fingolfin (PM:360, cf. 344), Arafinwë "Finarfin" (MR:230)
arquen
noble
arquen noun "a noble" (WJ:372), "knight" (PE17:147)
Youngest son of Fingolfin, who did not appear in The Silmarillion (PM/345, 360). His name is a compound of ar(a)- “high” and cáno “chieftain”; it was also the mother-name of his father Fingolfin (PM/345).