glen

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See also: Glen and Gleń

English

WOTD – 25 June 2017

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

glen (plural glens)

  1. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
    • 1871, Charles Kingsley, “Down the Islands”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. , volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 41:
      What riches too, of gold and jewels, might not be hidden among those forest-shrouded glens and peaks? And beyond, and beyond again, ever new islands, new continents perhaps, an inexhaustible wealth of yet undiscovered worlds.

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Manx

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

glen (plural glenney, comparative glenney)

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

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *glěnь.

Noun

glen m inan

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Further reading

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