Pechts

The term Pechts refers tae the tribes that Mediterranean classical-era writers pit in Caledonia, whit itsel comprises the pairt o present-day Scotland north o the Forth an Clyde.

Pecht first kythes in a panegyric written bi Eumenius in AD 297. Tho Picti is for ordinar taen tae mean 'pentit' or 'tattooit' in Laitin, the term micht hae a Celtic oreegin. The Goidelic Celts cried the Pechts ''cruithne'' (e.g. Auld Erse cru(i)then-túath, foondit on the auld Erse ruit cruth) an the Brythonic Celts kent them as prydyn (e.g. Early Welsh *kwriteno-teutā, or the mair modren pryd).