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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Welsh glyn; compare glen. Doublet of glen.
Pronunciation
Noun
glyn (plural glyns)
- 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)
- glen, valley
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.