glen

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• From Middle English glen, borrowed from Irish gleann and Scottish Gaelic gleann, Old and Middle Irish glend, glenn, 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. glyn.