Reconstruction:Pictish/ᚒᚓᚏᚈᚒᚏᚔᚑ

This Pictish entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Pictish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wertyā (“mound”). Cognate to Middle Welsh gwerthyr, "fortress".

Proper noun

*ᚒᚓᚏᚈᚒᚏᚔᚑ (Uerturio)

A kingdom in Scotland situated around Moray and Easter Ross, which existed from the 4th to 10th centuries.

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 415