About Cambria

Cambria is a latinised form of Cymru, which is the Welsh name for Wales. The etymology of Cymro "Welshman", Cimbri, and Cwmry "Cumbria", improbably connected to Gomer and the "Cimmerians" by 17th-century celticists, is now known to come from Old Welsh combrog "compatriot, Welshman", deriving from an old Brythonic word "combroges" or Proto-British *kom-brogos, meaning "compatriots", (as a result of the struggle with the Anglo-Saxons) possibly therefore related to its sister language Breton's keñvroad, keñvroiz "compatriot" .