English Explanatory Dictionary

Engadin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the Graubünden canton in southeast Switzerland.

Word forms

Engadin Engadine

Etymology

Borrowed from Romansh Engiadina, which is first attested in 930 CE 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).

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