glan

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

glan

1. pure

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡl̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/^[1] (as if spelled glán)
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ɡlɑn/^[2]
• (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, 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

• neamhghlan
• 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

• folúsghlan (“vacuum clean”, verb)
• glantóir m (“cleaner”)
• tirimghlan (“dry clean”, verb)

• 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

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	glan	glan	glan
Vocative	glain* glan**
Accusative	glan	glain
Genitive	glain	glaine	glain
Dative	glan	glain	glan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	glain	glana
Vocative	glanu glana†
Accusative	glanu glana†
Genitive	glan
Dative	glanaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

• glanaid

• Irish: glan
• Scottish Gaelic: glan
• Manx: glen

·glan

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of glanaid

glan

1. second-person singular imperative of glanaid

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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 animacy unattested

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^[1], 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, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “glan”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Back-formation from glanc, with a semantic shift of shine > boots polished to a shine > bovver boot.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: glan

glan m inan

1. (colloquial) bovver boot (stout lace-up boots, especially Dr. Martens, perceived to be worn for the purpose of kicking people in fights, and popular with skinheads or other troublemakers out looking for bovver)

• 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 or gloine, qualitative noun glainead or gloinead)

1. clean
2. pure
3. fine, grand, sheer
4. (colloquial) great, groovy, well

glan

1. completely, wholly, thoroughly
2. (colloquial, as an intensifier) very much, really, a lot, thoroughly

   chòrd e rium glan ― I really enjoyed it

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