glyn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh glyn; compare glen.

Noun

glyn (plural glyns)

  1. A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom
    • Edmund Spenser
      He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.

Welsh

Etymology

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

Noun

glyn m (plural glynnoedd)

  1. glen, valley

Mutation

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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.