ᚆᚉᚉᚃᚃᚓᚃᚃ

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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 ^ K. Forsyth, The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland: An Edited Corpus (unpublished PhD, archived by Harvard University, (1996)