Reconstruction:Pictish/ᚄᚚᚔᚌᚐᚇ
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
*ᚄᚚᚔᚌᚐᚇ (*spijad)[1]