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Habitational surname from either of two minor places in Scotland, from the Pictish element peit (“portion (of land)”) + a Scottish Gaelic word akin to Irish tulach (“hill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Habitational surname from either of two minor places in Scotland, from the Pictish element peit (“portion (of land)”) + a Scottish Gaelic word akin to Irish tulach (“hill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.