English

Proper noun

Glenn

1. A surname​, variant of Glen.
2. A male given name, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.
3. A female given name

Quotations

• 1937 Clara Studer, Sky storming Yankee, Stackpole sons, 1937, page 19:

  The Glen was the prettiest place she knew, so pretty she thought she ought to name her first baby after it. With another "n" added "to make it look more like a name", she called him Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The middle name was taken from the town itself, or its first settler, Lazarus Hammond.

  The whimsy of naming her son after a local landmark was typical of Lua Curtiss. Then too a name like Glenn Hammond Curtiss has sweep and resonance, was much less commonplace than Harry or Jim or Charlie; or Frank, like his father.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Glenn

1. A male given name borrowed from English, popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.

Swedish

Proper noun

Glenn

1. A male given name borrowed from English; popular in the 1960s.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲlʲen͈/

Noun

glenn n ‎(genitive glinne, nominative plural glinne)

1. valley

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: gleann
• Manx: glion
• Scottish Gaelic: gleann

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲlʲen͈ʲ/

Verb

·glenn

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of ·gleinn

Mutation

References

• “glenn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.