Editing Caithness (section)

==Toponymy==
The ''Caith'' element of the name ''Caithness'' comes from the name of a [[Picts|Pictish]] tribe known as the ''Cat'', ''Catt'' or ''Catti'' people, whose [[Kingdom of Cat]] covered what would become Caithness and parts of Sutherland from the 9th century. The {{lang|non|-ness}} element comes from [[Old Norse language|Old Norse]] and means "headland". The Norse called the area {{lang|non|Katanes}} ("headland of the Catt people"), and over time this became ''Caithness''.<ref name=snh>
[http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/publications/gaelic/gaelicnorseinthelandscape.pdf Gaelic and Norse in the Landscape: Placenames in Caithness and Sutherland] {{Webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110921192834/http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/publications/gaelic/gaelicnorseinthelandscape.pdf |date= 21 September 2011 }}. Scottish National Heritage. pp.7–8.
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The [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] name for Caithness, {{lang|gd|Gallaibh}}, means "among the strangers", referring to the Norse. The name of the Catti survives in the Gaelic name for eastern [[Sutherland]], {{lang|gd|Cataibh}},<ref name=snh/> and in the old Gaelic name for [[Shetland]], {{lang|gd|Innse Chat}}.