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Excerpt from Our Ancestors: Scots, Picts,& Cymry, and What Their Traditions Tell Us
The 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.
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