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Latin
Etymology
Superficially from Latin pictus (“painted one”), but probably rendering a Pictish autonym, probably related to the origin of another Celtic tribe, the Pictones (compare Poitiers); perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, the Goidelic/Q-Celtic version of the Brittonic/P-Celtic *Pritani, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Old Irish Cruthne, Cru(i)then-túath (“Picts”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”). Guto Rhys has noted a possible connection to Old Welsh Peithan, perhaps attesting the same element as Welsh gobaith (“hope”), although the etymology is uncertain, it would presumably derive from a Proto-Brythonic *pext-. More at Wikipedia.
Proper noun
Pictus m
- a Pict, a resident of early Scotland
Derived terms
References
- Rhys, Guto (2015): Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic
- Hudson, Benjamin (2014): The Picts
- Smith, J.R. (1864): History of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places in Their Connection with the Progress of Civilization, Volume 2