- Scot (plural
Scuit)
going back as far as the 9th century; for example, in the
glossary of
Cormac mac Cuilennáin. Oman
derived it from
Scuit (modern Gaelic...
-
meaning "crowd" or "horde".
Charles Oman (1910)
derived it from
Gaelic scuit,
meaning someone cut off. He
believed it
referred to
bands of
outcast Gaelic...
-
native name of any Gaelic-speaking
people (the
Irish Scot, an Irishman, pl.
Scuit,
appears to be a
learned word from Latin), nor does it
exist in Welsh, though...
- in Latin.
Charles Oman
derives it from
Scuit,
proposing a
meaning of 'a man cut off',
suggesting that a
Scuit was not a Gael as such but one of a renegade...
- "shoulder" and "shield" were, however,
easily confused in Old
Welsh – *
scuit "shield"
versus *scuid "shoulder" – and
Geoffrey of
Monmouth pla**** upon...
- The
words for "shoulder" and "shield"
being easily confused in Old Welsh:
scuit (shield) vs.
scuid (shoulder)]. Cf. Jones, W. Lewis. The
Cambridge History...
- not cut
loose the
strings of her
apron to escape. The
buggane from Gob-na-
Scuit was
known for
tearing the
thatch off the haystacks,
puffing the
smoke down...
- 1906
points out this
conflation of "shield" (Welsh: ysgwyd,
Middle Welsh:
scuit) and
shoulder (Welsh: ysgwydd),
citing J. William's
edition of the Annales...
- A
modern explanation says that the
placename comes from the Low
German Scuit (“Irishman”). Ireland’s
mediaeval name was
Scoti or Scotti. In
Gaelic there...