ᚆᚉᚉᚃᚃᚓᚃᚃ

Pictish edit

 
a drawing of the inscription on the Lunnasting stone

Etymology edit

Possibly cognate with the Welsh cluster chw.

Particle edit

ᚆᚉᚉᚃᚃᚓᚃᚃ (hccffeff)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Found on the Lunnasting stone, accepted as Pictish and read as hccffeff by Samuel Ferguson[1] and as hccvvevv by J. R. Allen and J. Anderson,[2] G. Donaldson[3] and K. Forsyth.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Samuel Ferguson, Ogham inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (1887)
  2. ^ J. R. Allen and J. Anderson, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, Part III (1903; Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)
  3. ^ Gordon Donaldson, The Edinburgh history of Scotland, volume 1 (1966)
  4. ^ K. Forsyth, The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland: An Edited Corpus (unpublished PhD, archived by Harvard University, (1996)