The Lugi were a people of ancient

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, known only from a single mention of them by the

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Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importanc ...

c. 150. from his general description and the approximate locations of their neighbors their territory was along the western coast of the

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. Ptolemy does not provide them with a town or principal place.

Etymology

The

Pictish Pictish is the extinct language, extinct Brittonic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited num ...

name ''Lugi'' probably stems from

Proto-Celtic Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing but has been partly Linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed through the compar ...

''*lugos'' ('crow'). A derivation from the Celtic god Lug has also been proposed.Abad, Rubén Abad. (2008). "La divinidad celeste/solar en el panteón céltico peninsular". In: ''Espacio, Tiempo y Forma''. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 21: 101.

References

;Bibliography * {{Iron Age tribes in Britain Historical Celtic peoples Picts Tribes mentioned by Ptolemy

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