Grisons

Borrowed from French Grisons. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Grisons

1. A canton of Switzerland (the French name)

   Synonyms: canton of Grisons, (the German name) Graubünden, canton of Graubünden

   • 1759, George Sale & al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, Vol.XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2:

     Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...

Historically but no longer prefixed by the.

• in gross, ingross, rossing, signors

From gris (“grey”), referring to the color of the clothes of the original inhabitants. This is also reflected in the German name, Graubünden (“grey league”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁi.zɔ̃/

Grisons ?

1. Grisons (a canton of Switzerland)

• → English: Grisons

• Louis Deroy et Marianne Mulon, Dictionnaire des noms de lieux, Le Robert, 1994