glen

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 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.

• defile (noun)
• gully
• strath

• glen plaid (probably etymologically unrelated)

• glen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• leng, Gen'l, gen'l, Genl, Engl, NELG, Engl., genl

• 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 (in Slovene), 2014–2024