Etymograph

English

Glenwood

From glen + wood.

A compound of glen + wood

Proto-Celtic *glendos ‘valley’

Old Irish glenn

Irish gleann ‘glen, valley’

Middle English glen

English glen

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to separate’

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Proto-West Germanic *widu ‘forest’

Old English widu

Old English wudu ‘wood’

Middle English wode ‘wood’

English wood

The story

The town in Newfoundland is named after the Glenwood Lumber Company, which is named in turn after the community in Nova Scotia.

Today it means

name A suburb of Sydney, located in New South Wales.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Glenwood