 English etymologists since the eighteenth century have held that the word "sept", which specifically applies to the Irish clan structure, is derived from the Latin ', meaning literally 'a hedge or fence' and figuratively 'a division'.One nineteenth-century scholar of Irish history, however, suggested that "sept" might alternatively have derived from the Latin "", 'seven', and argued that the number seven had particular relevance to peoples of Cruthin or Pictish origin, like the Loígis, who invariably divided their tribes into seven parts.The Loígis maintained such a seven-part division until English authorities transplanted the tribe to Kerry in 1608.