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Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name ''Cymru'' (Wales). ==Etymology== The names of ''Cymru'' "Wales" and "Cumbria", were once connected by 17th-century celticists to the Biblical Gomer, or to the Cimbri or the Cimmerians of Antiquity, yet these connections are unlikely. It is now known to come from Old Welsh ''combrog'' "compatriot; Welshman", from the root *''brogi'' "country, territory" (cf. Welsh, Cornish, Breton ''bro'' "territory, country"), itself from *''mrogi'' (cf. Old Irish ''mruig'', gen. ''mroga'' "country").〔Lambert, P.-Y., ''la langue gauloise'', Éditions errance 1994〕〔Gove, Philip Babcock, ed. Webster's Third New International 'Dictionary'. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2002: 321〕 ''Combrog'' derives from a Proto-Brythonic word *''kom-brogos'', meaning "fellow countryman, compatriot".〔Jones, J. Morris. ''Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913; new edition, 1995.〕〔Russell, Paul. ''Introduction to the Celtic Languages''. London: Longman, 1995.〕 The word is therefore cognate with Breton ''keñvroad, keñvroiz'', "comrade, compatriot".〔Delamarre, Xavier. ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise''. Paris: Errance, 2001.〕 The Latinized name ''Cambria'' has the same etymology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cambria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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