glyn

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See also: glŷn and Glyn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh glyn; compare glen. Doublet of glen.

Pronunciation

Noun

glyn (plural glyns)

  1. A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom
    • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande , Dublin: Societie of Stationers, , →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland  (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: Society of Stationers, Hibernia Press, y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
      He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *glɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *glendos.

Pronunciation

Noun

glyn m (plural glynnoedd)

  1. glen, valley

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
glyn lyn nglyn unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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