Kymry
/ˈkəm.rɪ/noun
A historical or variant English spelling of Cymry, the Welsh name for the Welsh people.
Did you know?Cymry originally referred broadly to Brittonic-speaking compatriots in parts of Britain, but after the Anglo-Saxon expansion it became associated primarily with the people of Wales.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kom
“Together; with; jointly”
Proto-Celtic
Proto-Celtic
*kom-brogi
“Fellow countrymen or people sharing the same land”
Brittonic
Brittonic
*combrogi
“Compatriots; people of the same country”
7th–9th Century
Old Welsh
Cymry
“Compatriots or fellow Britons; an ethnonym for Brittonic peoples”
12th–14th Century
Middle Welsh
Kymry / Cymry
“The Welsh people or inhabitants of Wales”
Modern English
English
Kymry
“A historical or variant spelling of Cymry, the Welsh national name”