Vanil

Vanil Noir from the southeast, from the direction of Rougemont

The name Vanil is an expression of the Friborg patois and refers to ledges and couloirs as well as mountain peaks whose flanks are criss-crossed by such gullies .

The term originally goes back to the Gallic word vanno (for slope, summit or rock). The name corresponds roughly to the designation French Sex , Rhaeto-Romanic Piz or Italian Sasso .

Well-known mountains with the name Vanil are the Vanil Noir , the Vanil d'Arpille , the Vanil des Artses or the Vanil Carré .

Individual evidence

^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 6: Tavetsch Val - Zybachsplatte, supplement - last additions - appendix . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1910, p. 327, keyword Vanil, Vanel ( scan of the lexicon page ).

[1] Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 6: Tavetsch Val - Zybachsplatte, supplement - last additions - appendix . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1910, p. 327, keyword Vanil, Vanel ( scan of the lexicon page ).