Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan wani labarin 1853 da Arthur Hussey ya rubuta, ya zama sanannen imani cewa sunan ya samo asali ne daga wani nassi a cikin "Bayani na Biritaniya" (), wani shahararren tarihin tarihi wanda Charles Bertram ya ƙirƙira a cikin 1740s kuma ya yarda da gaske har zuwa 1840s. A cikin 2004, George Redmonds ya sake nazarin wannan, yana gano cewa marubuta da yawa masu daraja sun wuce asalin sunan tsaunuka cikin shiru har ma a cikin ayyukan da aka keɓe don ilimin ilimin lissafi na Derbyshire da Lancashire. Ya gano cewa an yi imani da cewa Bertram ya samo asali ne kuma an dauke shi maras kyau. A zahiri, Redmonds ya sami kwatancen maimaitawa tare da Apennines na Italiya da ke komawa aƙalla a farkon William Camden (1551 <unk> 1623), da yawa daga cikin sunayen wuraren da ra'ayoyin Bertram suka haɗa cikin aikinsa. Bertram shine ke da alhakin (mafi yawa) tare da shaharar da sunan a kan sauran masu fafatawa kamar Daniel Defoe's "English Andes". Sunan nasa shine "Pennine Alps" (""), wanda a yau ake amfani dashi don ɓangaren yammacin Alps na nahiyar. Waɗannan duwatsun (yankin da ke kusa da St. Bernard Pass) sun samo sunan su daga Latin "Alpes Pœninæ" wanda sunansa ya samo asali ne daga Carthaginians
, wani allah na gida, da kuma Celtic "peninus". St. Bernard Pass shine hanyar da aka yi amfani da ita a cikin mamayewar Italiya ta Gallic Boii da Lingones a cikin 390 BC. Har ila yau, an yi jayayya game da asalin asalin Apennines da kansu - wanda sunansa ya fara komawa zuwa arewacin arewacin su sannan daga baya ya yada zuwa kudu - amma yawanci ana ɗauka ya samo asali ne daga wasu nau'ikan Celtic "pen" ko "ben" ("dutsen, kai").