Arch, I ain't gonna play the word game. Kilt, Celt, and Origin have their normal meaning as per Meriam-Webster.

Shay, Egyption, what on Earth are you talking about? Pharonic Egypt and it's culture and thus it's place as a fashon exporter fizzled out one and a half thousand years before the dates we are discussing.

Rigged, yes the Egyptions had a male skirt that obsolutely fits our definition of kilt but we know that the kilt today has it's origins in a wool blanket.

Arrg! Lets start this again: the kilt today is decended from the great kilt invented somewhere in Scotland before 1600. Prior to 1200 the Irish nobles wore the leine and brat which is ALMOST the same as the great kilt except the belt location.

So what do we know about our Pictish ancestors? Almost nothing, except that their religion, language, and culture were different from that of the Celts.

What little we know of them is post Celtic contact, the Pictish culture did not last long after that.

I'm trying to find a Celt-kilt connection, but it just ain't happening.