Alauni
The Alauni were a Gallic tribe dwelling around the lake Chiemsee during the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned as Alaunoí by Ptolemy, and as Alaunorum in the Notitia Dignitatum.The ethnic name Alauni is a latinized form of the Gaulish Alaunoi, which can be translated as 'the errants, wanderers, or nomads', in contrast to the names of the Anauni and Genauni. It derives from an earlier *Alamnoi, which is close to the Proto-Celtic stem *alamo-, built on a root *alǝ-. The name of the Gallic deity Alaunos is related.
According to scholar Lionel S. Joseph, the semantic opposition between the Alauni and Anauni recalls the later opposition between the wandering fían and the settled túath in early Ireland.