Quenya
aranórë
place name. Kingsland
Cognates
- S. Arnor “Royal Land” ✧ Let/428; PE17/028
Derivatives
- S. Arnor “Royal Land” ✧ Let/428; PE17/028; PE17/118
Elements
Word Gloss aran “king” nórë “land, country; †people, race, tribe, land, country, [ᴹQ.] region where certain people live, [ᴱQ.] nation; [Q.] †people, race, tribe, [ᴹQ.] folk, [ᴱQ.] family” Variations
- arnanórë/arnanor ✧ Let/428
- arn(a)dor ✧ Let/428
- Arandóre ✧ PE17/028
- aranōre ✧ PE17/028 (✶aranōre)
- Aranor ✧ PE17/118
- Arandor ✧ UT/165; UTI/Arandor
The Quenya equivalent of Arnor, with many variants (Aranórë being the most easily decomposed). It is a compound of either ar(a)- “royal” or aran “king”, with the second element either nórë or -ndor “land”. See the entry for Arnor for further discussion.