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Gender Masculine
Usage Anglo-Saxon
Other Forms FormsPehtwine, Pihtwine, Pyhtwine, Pehtuuinus, Pihtwinus
Meaning & History
Derived from Old English Peohtas "Pict" and wine "friend". The first element refers to the Picts, a group of peoples who lived in Britain north of the Forth–Clyde isthmus in the Pre-Viking, Early Middle Ages. This name was borne by an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Whithorn, in Scotland.