different between grotto vs glen

English

Etymology

From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????t.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.to?/
• Rhymes: -?t??

Noun

grotto (plural grottos or grottoes)

1. A small cave.
2. An artificial cavern-like retreat.
3. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
4. A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
   • 1987, National Speleological Society, NSS News, vol. 45-46, p.331:

     An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association.
5. (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.

Derived terms

• grot
• Santa's grotto

Translations

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: gl?n, IPA^(key): /?l?n/
  • (pin–pen merger) enPR: gl?n, IPA^(key): /?l?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

glen (plural glens)

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• defile (noun)
• strath

Further reading

• glen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• NELG, gen'l

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?n/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glan, from Proto-Celtic *glanos (“clean, clear”).

Adjective

glen (plural glenney, comparative glenney)

1. clean, hygienic
2. clear
3. pure
4. downright, unqualified, emphatic

Derived terms

• neughlen

Etymology 2

From Old Irish glanaid (“cleanses, purifies, purges”), from the adjective.

Verb

glen (verbal noun glenney, past participle glennit or glent)

1. clean
2. clear
3. wipe
4. purify, cleanse

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gl?n?.

Noun

glen m inan

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Further reading

• “glen”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran