Editing Dál Riata (section)

==Name==
The name ''{{lang|sga|Dál Riata}}'' comes from [[Old Irish]] and means "the portion of Riata".<ref name="Laing p324">{{cite book |last1=Laing |first1=Lloyd |title=The Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland: c.AD 400-1200 |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=324}}</ref> ''Dál'' is part of the names of other Irish territories, such as [[Dál Fiatach]] and [[Dál gCais]]. ''Riata'' is the [[Genitive case|genitive]] of a tribal name or deity name.<ref name="Laing p324"/> [[Bede]] wrote that the kingdom was named after its founder, a man called Reuda.<ref name="Laing p324"/> Some Old Gaelic texts say that the kingdom was named after the Corcu Réti, descendants of [[Domangart Réti]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fraser |first1=James |title=From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 |date=2009 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |page=145}}</ref> Another legend says that it was named after one [[Síl Conairi|Cairbre Riata]].<ref name="Laing p324"/>

The [[Dalradian]] geological series, a term coined by [[Archibald Geikie]] in 1891, was named after Dál Riata because its outcrop has a similar geographical reach to that of the former kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grampian Highlands: geological foundations |url=https://www.nature.scot/landforms-and-geology/scotlands-rocks-landforms-and-soils/rocks-and-minerals/scotlands-geological-foundations/grampian-highlands-geological |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=NatureScot |language=en}}</ref>