Engadin

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Grisons/Graubünden in southeast Switzerland.

Origin

• Borrowed from Romansch Engiadina, which is first attested in AD 930 as Medieval Latin vallis Eniatina. The toponym can perhaps be explained as a derivation from a reconstructed ethnonym *Eniates ("settlers on the Inn" (see Latin Aenus), with a Celtic suffix -ates for "settlers, inhabitants"; cf. Licātēs, Atrebatēs).