cáno

commander

cáno ("k") noun "commander", usually as the title of a lesser chief, especially one acting as the deputy of one higher in rank (PM:345, SA:káno PM:362 indicates that cáno originially meant "crier, herald"); "ruler, governor, chieftain" (UT:400), "leader" (PE17:113).Masc. name Cáno, see Canafinwë. The word cáno ("k") also occurred in the Etymologies with the gloss "chief", but Tolkien changed it to cánë "valour" (VT45:19).

cáno

noun. commander, chief(tain), ruler, governor; †crier, herald

incáno

mind master

incáno or incánu ("k"), noun "mind master" (PE17:155), cf. cáno.

tercáno

herald

tercáno noun "herald" (PM:362)

tercáno

noun. herald

Turucáno

turgon

Turucáno ("k") masc. name "Turgon" (PM:344). The meaning is something like "powerful commander" (see cáno). Another version gives Turondo "lord of stone" as the Q name of Turgon(d). (PE17:115), with a wholly distinct final element.

Canafinwë

strong-voiced or ?commanding finwë

Canafinwë masc. name "strong-voiced or ?commanding Finwë"; his Sindarin name was Maglor (see Macalaurë). Short Quenya name Cáno. (PM:352)

incánu

noun. mind master

cáno

noun. herald

Turgon

noun. Turgon

prop. n.

Turgon

noun. Turgon

master-shout (if interpretable at all); tûr (“mastery, victory”) + caun (“outcry, clamour” ) S name of Turukáno.

Turgon

Turgon

Turgon is the Sindarized version of his Quenya father-name, Turukáno. The latter contains the element káno ("commander").