glan

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

glan

1. pure

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡl̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/[1] (as if spelled glán)
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡlˠanˠ/, /ɡl̪ˠan̪ˠ/

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

glan (genitive singular masculine glain, genitive singular feminine glaine, plural glana, comparative glaine)

1. clean
2. clear

Archaic declension

• spéirghlan

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

glan (present analytic glanann, future analytic glanfaidh, verbal noun glanadh, past participle glanta)

1. clean

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Celtic *glanos.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlan/

glan

1. clean
2. pure
3. clear

• glanaid

• Irish: glan
• Scottish Gaelic: glan

·glan

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of glanaid

glan

1. second-person singular imperative of glanaid

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “glan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *glěnь. First attested in the end of the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɡlʲaːn/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɡlʲɒn/

glan m ?

1. dirt, filth
   • 1968 [End of the 15th century], Roman Laskowski, Józef Reczek, editors, Glosy polskie rękopisu Sermones de tempore et de sanctis nr. XV 32 Biblioteki OO. Dominikanów w Krakowie z drugiej połowy XV wieku‎, Sandomierz: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, page 73:

     Sed, heu, multi sunt peccatores, qui se abscondunt in squalore, w glanye, immundicie

     [Sed, heu, multi sunt peccatores, qui se abscondunt in squalore, w glanie, immundicie]

• Polish: glon

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “glan”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

From glanc with a semantic shift of shine to boots polished to a shine to bovver boot.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɡlan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: glan

glan m inan

1. bovver boot

• glan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• glan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

glan (comparative glaine)

1. clean
2. pure
3. fine, grand, sheer

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

glan (past ghlan, future glanaidh, verbal noun glanadh, past participle glante)

1. clean, purify
2. purge, refine
3. weed

From Middle Welsh glann, from Proto-Brythonic *glann, from Proto-Celtic *glannos; see *glendos.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlan/

glan f (plural glannau or glennydd)

1. bank, shore

• glanio (“to come ashore, to land”)
• Glannau Dyfrdwy (“Deeside”)
• Glannau Merswy (“Merseyside”)
• lan (“up(ward)”)
• marchrawn y glennydd (“shore horsetails”)
• torlan (“undercut riverbank, dyke”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “glan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies