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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An element in some Celtic place-names, meaning ‘glen’: as, Glyn-crwg, Glyn-taf, in Wales; Glynn in Antrim, Ireland.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A glen. See glen. [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom

Etymologies

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Welsh; compare glen.

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