Abstract
A tenth-century Irish glossary attributes a word for 'brooch' to the 'Pictish language'. The word also occurs in an eighth-century Irish law text, and the glossator's form has been compared with a hapax legomenon word in an Old Welsh poem. This note discusses the possible etymological relations between these words, and pursues the wider implications of the linguistic analysis so constructed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 73-82 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Celtic Linguistics |
| Volume | 9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |