Editing Engadin (section)

==Name==
In English, the valley is known as either ''Engadin'' ({{IPA|de|ˈɛŋɡadiːn|-|De-Engadin.ogg}}, <small>locally also</small> {{IPA|de|ɛŋɡaˈdiːn|}})<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Engadin|title=Engadin, das|work=Duden|access-date=1 November 2021}}</ref> or ''Engadine'' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɛ|ŋ|ɡ|ə|d|iː|n}} {{respell|ENG|gə|deen}},<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/engadine|title=Engadine|work=[[Collins English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|USalso|ˌ|ɛ|ŋ|ɡ|ə|ˈ|d|iː|n}} {{respell|ENG|gə|DEEN}}).<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|Engadine|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Engadine|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref>

The Romansh toponym ''Engiadina'' was first attested as Latin ''vallis Eniatina'' in AD 930. A derivation from the reconstructed [[ethnonym]] *''Eniates'' (with a Celtic suffix ''-ates'' denoting "settlers, inhabitants", as in ''Licates'' or ''[[Atrebates]]'') has been suggested, with the first part of the ethnonym in turn containing the name of the [[Inn (river)|En]] (''Aenus (Enus)'').<ref>{{HDS|246117|Eniates|author=Hans Lieb|date=22 December 2015}}</ref> By that derivation the name would mean {{lit|"Valley of the Inn people"}}.

Especially in touristic and advertising contexts, the meaning of the name is widely given as "garden of the Inn", presumably based on an incorrect [[folk etymology]] involving the Italian word ''[[wikt:giardino|giardino]]''.<ref>[https://www.engadin.com/en/the-lower-engadin/holiday-resorts/strada-martina Strada-Martina (Municipality of Valsot)]</ref> The Romansh languages retain descendants of Latin ''[[wikt:hortus|hortus]]'' to refer to a garden, namely ''[[wikt:üert|üert]]'' or ''[[wikt:iert#Romansch|iert]]'', and not the ultimately Germanic [[loanword]] found in modern-day French and Italian.