Glâne

a tributary of the Sarine (Saane); a district in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland; one of two districts in either Payerne, Vaud or Broye, Fribourg; an ancient community associated with modern Romont

Perhaps from the conflation of Gaulish glanna (“bank (of a river)”) and glanos (“clear, pure, limpid, transparent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥Hnós, from *ǵʰel- (“bright”). Cognate of several other toponyms: Gland (“a few ancient settlements in Switzerland”), le Glaney (“A tributary of la Glâne and an adjacent hamlet”), la Glenne (“a tributary of la Chalaronne”), and Le Glenans (“a tributary of the Rhône”).