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The word "glass" does not refer to the abundant occurrence of water-bright, crystal-clear quartz at Piz Beverin, but is rooted in the Latin clausum, which means something like "closed", "enclosure". There are different theories about the origin of the name. The name of the field could come from the former owner of the lands on the Heinzenberg, the monastery Cazis. This is because the so-called penitential periods in the church year, Lent and Advent, are referred to as "closed time". Another theory says that the name refers to the enclosure for cattle, i.e. the fencing of livestock to prevent them from escaping. This theory would also explain the origin of the name before the time of Walser immigration. Andreas Bellasi (Hrsg.): Höhen, Tiefen, Zauberberg. Rotpunktverlag, 2004. Source: Andrea Schorta: How the mountain came to its name. Terra Grischuna Verlag, 1991

You can learn a lot about the landscape and its former inhabitants from name names. Often, names were initially just words, such as Büel, which in the vocabulary of the Alemanni was the name for the terrain "hill / hill / ridge". Tied to a place, it was then fixed as a field name; here for Hoch Büel.

The place name Tschappina also tells us what the landscape here must have looked like in the past. Tschappina comes from the Romansh tscheppa, which means "undergrowth/thicket". This indicates that this place used to be very densely forested. The ending -ina comes from the Latin acer and means "maple", in the plural the quantity ending -ina is added to a word. This indicates that there used to be a maple forest here.

The name Carnusa, from Carnusahorn, Carnusatal and Alp Carnusa, is also derived from the Latin Carduus "thistle". Alp Carnusa therefore means "thorny, thistle alp".

The origin of the name of Piz Beverin is not so clear; there are different theories about this. In Latin, bavorium stands for "beef/ox". This could be an allusion to the double peaks of Piz Beverin, which look like two horns. Or it could come from bovaricium, which means "ox pasture". On the ox pastures and pastures, the draught animals were granted a short stay on the alp after the ploughing season and after the hay. According to this theory, the oxen would have grazed below the Piz Beverin. A third theory is that Beverin is derived from the Italian baverino "the lace with the small collar". For in the past it was said: "If a collar is visible around the mountain, there is a threat of thunderstorm!" The Romansh name Piz stands for "summit", "peak". The Walser simply say "ds Hoora".

The name researchers agree on the origin of the names of the two neighbours of Piz Beverin; the Zwöfliund Einshorn. The two peaks were named after the fact that in the past, seen from the village square in Tschappina, the sun was above the Zwölfihorn at twelve o'clock and over the Einshorn at one o'clock. In the summer time, it is one hour earlier over the peaks.