ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ
Pictish
Etymology
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Proper noun
ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ (nehhtonn)
- a male given name, Nechtan
Usage notes
- A term found on the Lunnasting stone, accepted as Pictish and read as the personal name nehhtonn by Allen and Anderson.[1] Katherine Forsyth[2] and Gordon Donaldson[3] read the term as ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚄ nehhtons instead.
Descendants
- English: Nechtan
- Scottish Gaelic: Neachdan
References
- ^ J. R. Allen and J. Anderson, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, Part III (1903; Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)
- ^ K. Forsyth, The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland: An Edited Corpus (unpublished PhD, archived by Harvard University, (1996)
- ^ Gordon Donaldson, The Edinburgh history of Scotland, volume 1 (1966)