glen

Pronunciation: /ɡlɛn/

The English word “glen” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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.

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