glyn

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See also: glŷn and Glyn

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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, [] [b]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

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Welsh

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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glyn m (plural glynnoedd)

  1. glen, valley

Mutation

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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.