Engadin

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Etymology

Borrowed from Romansch Engiadina, which is first attested in AD 930 as Vallis Eniatina. The toponym can perhaps be explained as a derivation from a reconstructed ethnonym *Eniates ("settlers on the Inn", with a Celtic suffix -ates for "settlers, inhabitants"; cf. Licates, Atrebates[1]).

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Engadin

  1. a long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Grisons/Graubünden in southeast Switzerland

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