Reconstruction:Pictish/ᚄᚚᚔᚌᚐᚇ

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

Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *spɨðad, from Proto-Celtic *skʷiyats, from Proto-Indo-European *skwi(y)-h₂et-s, from *skwey- (“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