Our Ancestors

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Excerpt from Our Ancestors: Scots, Picts, & Cymry, and What Their Traditions Tell UsThe dyers of the Thracian cotus-cotytto may be held convicted of deeds of darkness, and this would be properly expressed of them and their congeners by a term derived from the Greek Ezo'¿og, darkness, hence Scoti The very name Cotus, Cotys, lends itself to a supposititious connection. Frequently an initial 3 appears in other languages, Latin having lost it. C du da, a tail, appears in Gothic as skauts. Pliny's nums, a young married woman, is in o.g. Mm, a daugh ter-in-law. It is a curious fact worth mentioning that Latin casa, a simple hut, a thatched cottage, occurring in the Candida Casa of Ninian, Whithorn in Galloway, is the equivalent of the Greek 07mm, a tent, a booth, a word appearing in the Scottish place-name (gaelic, n'n) Scone, the locality from which Edward I. Carried off the Coronation Stone. Putting in a secondary position philological argument.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.