[66] | Chalmers for | Pinkerton for | Jamieson, | Celtic, | Gothic, | “Teutonic Etymons.” ------+---------------------+------------------+-------------------- Drust | Probably the British| Drust, a common | Su. Goth. _troest_, | name Trwst, which | Pikish name, is | _dristig_. Germ., | signifies din. | also Persian, and| _dreist_. Alem. | | signifies _sinc- | _gidrost_, daring. | | erus_.... The | | | Persians were the| | | old Sythæ or | | | Goths, from whom | | | the rest sprung. | | | | Brudi | Brudw, which is | Brudi is the real| Island., Briddi or | pronounced Bridw or | Gothic name; | _eminebat_. vercl: Bridei| Bradw, is in the | Bout is the | breida, to extend; | British treacherous | wounded (Bott | and Sueo-Goth, _e_, | | _ictus_ Wachter).| law; 2. one who | | | extends the law, | | | who publishes it. ------+---------------------+------------------+-------------------- For other instances see Burton’s _Scotland_, i. p. 196. [67] Garnett’s _Phil. Essays_, pp. 197, 198. [68] _Highlanders._ [69] _Phil. Essays_, p. 200. [70] _Words and Places_, p. 246. [71] Highlanders. [72] _Scotland_, vol i. p. 207. [73] Vol. i. p. 26. [74] Vol. ii. p. 377. [75] _Essay on Scotland_, vol. i. p. 70. [76] We have already (p. 22) referred to the Gaelo-Cymric theory broached by Dr. Maclauchlan in his _Early Scottish Church_, and recently adopted by Dr. Skene. Speaking of the distribution of the topographical nomenclature in the Highlands, Dr. Maclauchlan says it indicates one of two things; “either that the one race overpowered the other in the east, and superinduced a new nomenclature over the old throughout the country,--that we have in fact two successive strata of Celtic names, the Gaelic underlying the British, which is by no means impossible; or, what is more likely, that the Pictish people were a people lying midway between the Gael and the Cymri--more Gaelic than the Cymri, and more Cymric than the Gael. This is precisely the character of the old Pictish topography; it is a mixture of Gaelic and Cymric; and if the language of the people was like their topography, it too was a language neither Gaelic nor Cymric, but occupying a middle space between them, indicating the identity of the races at some distant period, although they afterwards became rivals for the possession of the land.” This we think on the whole the most satisfactory theory yet propounded.