Which language has more Pictish influence - Lowland Scots or Scottish Gaelic?

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I'm hoping to get some input on which of these two languages - Lowland Scots or Scots Gaelic - have carried more influence from the Pictish language. While it seems clear that Gaelic has kept some Pictish language features, I'm wondering if perhaps Lowland Scots has kept some or perhaps even more than Gaelic as the areas that became Lowland Scots speaking were areas which remained Pictish for longer than other parts of Scotland, such as the north eastern areas.

What do you folks think?
 
We have not the smallest bit of clue to begin with, I think -
for lexicon, maybe a well knowledged fellow could find more celtic words or different celtic words in N-E Scotland (Grampians), here I avow I'm short (I've a scot dictionary at hand but I doubt it's enough) -
BTW today extreme N-E Scots are no more the Picts descendants only: they received some Saxon and Dane blood in later periods, IMO more than the most of today Lowlands people. For the pictish influence upon gaelic I don't know, but I doubt it would have been so strong concerning phonetic. That said, pictish apparently was not so distinct from other brittonic languages.
We would need specialists in the very matter here.
 
Gaelic. Highlands likely had Picts. Lowlands Scots is Old/Middle English based btw.
 
Gaelic and Old English became the dominant languages; So they eliminated the most of Pict and other Brittons language, not without borrowing some words as almost everytime in this case; surely a lot concerning totonymy and topography - if pictish language was spoken before only north the lowlands we can suppose it's Gaelic which picked the more Pictish words, but it is not proved. The topographic Pictish word pit is found in the Lothians and 1 occurrence exists between Lowlands and Ayrshire, but as a rule is dense only in Fifeshire (the most), East Grampians, Perth and Inverness, and very seldom in West Highlands... If it's typical of Picts settlements, it shows it has not been taken by Gaelic speakers, and Picts were not so dense in Northwest and West Scotland... Open question.
 
Alan RAUDE (a Breton) thinks the term Brittia applied to Northern Britain (Procopus de Cesarea (565 AD) discribed Britain as compound of two islands, Britannia, in front of Spain, and Brittia, in front of the Rhine mouth ; in his mind, Brittia was peopled by Angilot, Frissones and Britones (Angles, Frisians and Brittons); RAUDE cites some namings evolution by time, according to ancient historians : Britanni was the name of Britain inhabitants for Caesar and Tacitus, and Gildas, but already some legions contained the term Brittones (Flavia Brittonum, Aurelia Brittonum, Brittones Caledonense…) side by side with Britanni (Cohors III Britannorum, (Ala I Britannica) … Gildas wrote an name Brittana around 545 AD, and it seems a « crossing » between Britannia and Brittonia. Since the end of the 4th century, everytime that Brittones are localized, it’s in Northern Britain.
It seems Britannia could already be a latin « mix » of Pretania (see the Cruithni in Northern Ireland) ; Brittia could be a latinization of a name containing a root *brikt cognate with *brîkt, both meaning « speckled », « motted », which gave Breton brizh and Welsh brith/braith with the same meaning plus « multi-coloured » ; the /britt-/ could be the reflex of Brittonic */brijt/*/briçt/ which became /bri[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]θ[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]/ ; do notice the words : Breton [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]brezhell [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]« mackerel », Welsh [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]brithyll [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]« perch », speckled fishes, and Breton [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]brech[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif], Welsh [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]brech[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif], both « irruption », « nettle rash » and other dseases affecting skin ; and do notice that ancient [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]*-tt[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] , [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]*-kt [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]and [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]*-pt [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]all of them gave [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]-(i)th [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]and -[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif](i)zh[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] in Welsh and Breton -[/FONT]
[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]so the Northern Pretani would have had a specific name formed on [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]britt- (brikt-)[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] with this meaning of « speckled », « motted » which could express the fact they were tattoed ; it could very well be convenient for the « oldest » or most traditional tribes of North Britain which became the basis of the future [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]Picts[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] who were tattoed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]& : Brittany is [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]Breizh [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]in Breton, on the same root (with short /i/) and it is of some worth to know that the most of the nobility who made the bulk of these migrants w[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]ould have been[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]Cornish[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]men[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] of those times, it’s to say the Northern ones, [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]and also people from[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] Stratclud in South Central Scotland ; (in fact [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]Cornovi[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] were found in more than a place, among them North-East to Wales [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]- [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]Cheshire/ Lancahire [/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif]-[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif] and even Caithness in farthest Northern Scotland ; this group of tribes was allied to Rome and furnished troops to the Empire, if what I red is true[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif])[/FONT][FONT=Liberation Serif, serif].[/FONT]
 
Piece and jam.

The word 'piece' in this common Lallans' phrase has a Pictish origin. There are others.
 
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