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Cymro-
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Cymro
English
Etymology
From en cy Cymro or cy Cymru.
Prefix
Welsh.
1838 March, Sylvanus Urban (pseudonym), review of The Parochial History of Cornwall, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume IX, page 274:
The root of the Cornish language was the same as that of the Welsh language, but largely amalgamated with the Saxon; Every vestige of this old Cymro-Saxon jargon has however past away, except it be indeed the use of a few pronouns decidedly Saxon.
en 2004 Travels with the Flea... and Other Eccentric Journeys Jim Perrin 1903238439 They moved to Rhydlewis, just to the west of Llandysul, where he spent what appears to have been a poor (his mother was expelled from chapel for not paying her dues) and unhappy childhood, falling foul of the Cymrophobic education system of the time.
en Western Mail Graham Henry Irish 'consul' holds court at new HQ 2010-07-15 Formerly Mr Driscoll held court at that bastion of Welsh nationalism, The Cayo Arms, on Cardiff’s Cathedral Road, where he could be consulted on any matter concerning Cymro-Irish relations as long as an element of rugby football was included in the conversation.
en history Celtic.
en Britannicus (pseudonym) 1862 149 Vindication of the mosaic ethnology of Europe The Cambrian Journal From B.C. 390, to B.C. 900, is the fall and rise of the Etrurian or Tyrrhenian empire, of the establishment of the Cymro-Gallic empire in Northern Italy, and of the Etrurian domination in Rome
en 1907 The Ethnology of West Yorkshire John Beddoe; Joseph Hamberly Rowe The Yorkshire Archæological Journal 19 32 And as for the physical type or types, the light complexion is very unlike that of the earlier British or Iberian race, though we cannot say that the ruling Cymro-Gaelic stocks were not fair.
en 1909 The Romance of Northumberland A. G. Bradley 137 Some people derive Berwick from the Cymro-Teutonic compound Aber-wick. This sounds most reasonable, Aber signifying the mouth of a river, while some of the Saxons whom Ida gathered into one kingdom certainly then or later had a "wick" or town here. The Celts would naturally have emphasized the penultimate and made it Aberwick [...]
Synonyms
Welsh en Cambro-
Coordinate terms
Appendix:English nationality prefixes
Derived terms
en
Anagrams
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