At 11:23:15 AM on Thursday, February 23, 2006, Aigius wrote:
> Can it be that name of Scotland comes from word SCUTUM?
No. <Scotland> is the land of the <Scottas>. OE <Scottas>
originally meant 'Irishmen' but was subsequently transferred
to the inhabitants of the kingdom of the Scots in northwest
Britain; the etymology of the ethnonym is obscure.
Brian