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Definition: PICTISH |
PICTISHAdjective1. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. |
Date "PICTISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Picts inhabited Caledonia (Scotland), north of the River Forth. We owe their name to the Romans: in Latin the word Picti means painted folk or possibly tattooed ones. The Picts spoke a language, Pictish, of which little is known.
Modern scholars believe that seven ancient Pictish Kingdoms existed:
However, good archaeological evidence and some written evidence suggests that a Pictish kingdom also existed in Orkney.
- Cait -- situated in modern Caithness and Sutherland
- Ce -- situated in modern Marr and Buchan
- Circinn -- situated in modern Angus and the Mearns
- Fib -- situated in the modern Fife and Kinross (Fife is still known as the Kingdom of Fife)
- Fidach -- situated in modern Moray and Ross
- Fotla -- situated in modern Atholl and Gowrie
- Fortriu -- situated in modern Strathearn and Menteith
From the 6th century AD onwards the Picts came under increasing pressure from the invasions of the Dalriadan Scots in the west and of the Vikings in the east. They defeated Dalriada militarily but intermarried repeatedly with the royal house of Dalriada until in 843 AD Kenneth Mac Alpin took the throne of a united kingdom of Scotland. Gaelic culture and Scots Gaelic gradually supplanted Pictish culture and the Pictish language.
It remains uncertain whether or not we should classify the Picts as Celts although most available placename evidence tends to support the theory that they were Brythonic Celts.
You can often tell where Pictish settlement has taken place in the past (in Scotland) from place names. Those prefixed with "Aber-", "Lhan-", "Pit-" or "Fin-" indicate the region was inhabited by Picts in the past (eg: Aberdeen, Lhanbryde, Pitmedden, Pittodrie, Findochty, etc).
See also: Kings of the Picts
External Links
- Pictish Nation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Picts."
Crosswords: PICTISH |
| Specialty definitions using "PICTISH": Maiden Town. (references) |
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| "PICTISH" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "PICTISH" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (common) | 10% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PICTISH": pictish-northumbrian, pictish-scottish. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pictish | 11 |
pictish art | 4 |
pictish warrior | 3 |
pictish symbol | 3 |
craft pictish witch | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PICTISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | Pictisch. (various references) | |
Manx | Pictagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ictishpay.(various references) | |
Spanish | picto (pict). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "PICTISH" (pronounced 'Pict"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: chips, chits, pitch, piths, stich, tipis. | |
-3 letters: chip, chis, chit, cist, hips, hist, hits, ichs, itch, phis, pics, pish, pith, pits, ship, sith, spic, spit, this, tics, tipi, tips. | |
-4 letters: chi, cis, hic, hip, his, hit, ich, its, phi, pht, pic, pis, pit, psi, sic, sip, sit, tic, tip, tis. | |
-5 letters: hi, is, it. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-i-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: phthisic. | |
+2 letters: chippiest, chirpiest, phthisics, physicist, pistachio, pitchiest, sophistic. | |
+3 letters: aphoristic, euphuistic, isoplethic, phlogistic, phthisical, physicists, pistachios, sphericity, syphilitic, whipstitch. | |
+4 letters: captainship, chiropodist, citizenship, diastrophic, dispatching, euphemistic, mispatching, multiphasic, pantheistic, pheneticist, phonemicist, physicalist, physicality, prehistoric, psilophytic, psychiatric, sociopathic, sophistical, spherulitic, sphincteric, syphilitics. | |
+5 letters: antistrophic, biophysicist, captainships, chiropodists, citizenships, diaphoretics, dictatorship, directorship, dysphemistic, encephalitis, epiphytotics, geophysicist, hypercritics, hypocoristic, interpsychic, intrapsychic, lithospheric, misanthropic, patriarchies, periphrastic, peritrichous, pheneticists, phonemicists, phoneticians, phosphatidic, phosphoritic, physicalists, physiocratic, polyhistoric, polytheistic, postischemic, psychiatries, psychiatrist, scintigraphy, sociopathies, sophisticate, sphericities, topstitching, whipstitched, whipstitches. | |
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