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Reconstruction:Pictish/ᚄᚚᚔᚌᚐᚇ
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Pictish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *skʷiy-at-s (“hawthorn”), from Proto-Indo-European *skw-oy-eh₂, from *skw-oy- (“needle, prickle; thorn”).
Celtic cognates include Breton spezad (“gooseberry”) (from Middle Breton spezadenn), Cornish spedhas (“briars”), Welsh ysbyddad (“hawthorn”), Scottish Gaelic sceathan (“thorn bush”) (from Old Irish scé (“hawthorn”)).
Other Indo-European cognates include Proto-Slavic *xvoja (“needles or branches of conifer”) (whence also Russian хво́я (xvója), Polish choja), Lithuanian skujà (“needle of a coniferous tree”), Latvian skuja (“needle of a fir-tree”), Dacian *skuia (“spruce, fir-tree”).
Proper noun
*ᚄᚚᚔᚌᚐᚇ (spijad)[1]
- thorn
References
- Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish Language: Historiography, Early Evidence and the Question of Pritenic (in English), Glasgow: University of Glasgow, page 258-260 of 391