The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΔωρικός“related to Dorians”
- English todayDoric
From Ancient Greek Δωρικός (Dōrikós, “related to Dorians”). The senses referring to dialects of Scottish are thought to have come from the Scots’ rusticness associated with the Athenians’ view of Dorians as uncivilised.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.