Valley, in my words

dalle : valley

The Illunse word for valley is dalle. Dalle is a last name. In French dalle means slab, flagstone, floor tile. In Italian dalle means from the. Dalle is the name of cities in Belgium, Ethiopia and Germany.

This word is a mixture of the Latin word for valley which is vallis (valley, vale, hollow), and the Old English word for valley which is denu (valley, plain, vale, dale).

Dalle is similar to the Old English words words dell (dell, a small wooded hollow) and dæl (dale, an open river valley in a hilly area).