glen

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

gola

sinonimi

valley

dale

vale

dell

ravine

gorge

canyon

deep ravine

nullah

mountain-pass

heugh

barranca

narrow defile

basin

defile

dingle

gap

holler

narrow

barranco

Traduzioni

cañada

vadi

dere

ravina

cânion

gorge

vallon

vallée

Bergschlucht

vallée étroite

vale

μικρή στενή κοιλάς

Kluft

κλεισούρα

μικρή στενή κοιλάδα

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɡlɛn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: glen

Affine mannese: glion

Affine gallese: glyn

In summary

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.