glen

Raven’s Craig Glen in Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

From Middle English glen, borrowed from Irish gleann and Scottish Gaelic gleann, Old and Middle Irish glend, glenn (“mountain valley”), from Proto-Celtic *glendos (“valley”), hypothetically from Proto-Indo-European *glend- (“shore”) but the word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Compare Manx glion, Welsh glyn. Doublet of glyn.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: glĕn, IPA^(key): /ɡlɛn/
  • (pin–pen merger) enPR: glĭn, IPA^(key): /ɡlɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

glen (plural glens)

1. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.

• defile (noun)
• gully
• strath

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• NELG, gen'l, leng

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɛn/

From Old Irish glan, from Proto-Celtic *glanos (“clean, clear”).

glen (plural glenney, comparative glenney)

1. clean, hygienic
2. clear
3. pure
4. downright, unqualified, emphatic

• neughlen

From Old Irish glanaid (“cleanses, purifies, purges”), from the adjective.

glen (verbal noun glenney, past participle glennit or glent)

1. clean
2. clear
3. wipe
4. purify, cleanse

From Proto-Slavic *glěnь.

glen m inan

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• “glen”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran