Reconstruction:Pictish/ᚒᚓᚏᚈᚒᚏᚔᚑ
Pictish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *wertyā (“mound”). Cognate to Middle Welsh gwerthyr, "fortress".
Proper noun edit
*ᚒᚓᚏᚈᚒᚏᚔᚑ (Uerturio)
- A kingdom in Scotland situated around Moray and Easter Ross, which existed from the 4th to 10th centuries.
References edit
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 415