Glâne

See also: glane and glané

French

Perhaps from the conflation of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish glanna (“bank (of a river)”) and glanos (“clear, pure, limpid, transparent”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥Hnós, from *ǵʰel- (“bright”).^[1]. Cognate of several other toponyms: Gland (“a few ancient settlements in Switzerland”), le Glaney (“A tributary of la Glâne and an adjacent hamlet”), la Glenne (“a tributary of la Chalaronne”), and Le Glenans (“a tributary of the Rhône”).

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Glâne District

Wikipedia

la Glâne f

(river) a tributary of the Sarine (Saane)
(District de la Glâne) a district in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland
(la Petite Glâne) one of two districts in either Payerne, Vaud or Broye, Fribourg
(les Glânes) an ancient community associated with modern Romont

^ glanna in (2001) Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Paris, éditions Errance, Collection des Hespérides.