Re: Cambria
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 7, 2000, 19:20 |
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At 9:25 pm -0800 6/4/00, Mike Adams wrote:
>I thought that Cambria could come from the native Welsh name for
>themselves.
It does.
(It's obviously modern Latin - not Classical :)
>Cymru=prounced something like Cumree.. There is a name for them other
>than the lingo..
Cymru ['kVmr1] = Wales
Cymro ['kVmro] = (a) Welshman
Cymraes [kVm'raEs] = (a) Welshwoman
Cymry ['kVmr1] = Welsh people
Cymreig ['kVmr@jg] = Welsh (adjective)
Cymreigrwydd [kVm'r@igrujD] = Welshness
Cymraeg [kVm'raEg] = Welsh (language)
Cymreigeiddio [kVmr@jg@jDjo]
_or_ Cymreigio [kVm'r@jgjo] = to change into Welsh, to Cambricize
Pob hwyl,
Ray.
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