Cymru
/ˈkəm.rɨ/noun
The Welsh name for Wales and for the Welsh people.
Did you know?Cymru comes from a Brittonic ethnonym meaning roughly “fellow countrymen” or “compatriots,” not from any mystical or Roman invention.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Celtic
P-Celtic
*kom-brogos / *kom-brogi
“A term likely meaning “fellow countryman” or “one of the same land””
Brittonic
Brittonic
*Kombroges
“The people of the same region or country”
Old Welsh
Welsh
Cymry
“The Welsh people”
Middle Welsh
Welsh
Cymru
“Wales”
Modern Welsh
Welsh
Cymru
“Wales; the Welsh name for the country”