a. [f. Welsh Cymru Wales, Cymry the Welsh, pl. of Cymro, prob. repr. ancient Combrox compatriot (cf. Allobrox men of another country).] Of or pertaining to the Welsh people and language.
[1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 415/2. The Alphabet of the ancient Cymra’s or Britains.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Cymraccan (from the Br. Cymraeg i. Welsh) Cambrian.
1833. Southey, Naval Hist. Eng., I. 1. The Cambrians, or, more properly, the Cymry.]
1839. Keightley, Hist. Eng., I. 78. Beneath them [the clergy] were the vassal Celtic and Cymric princes.
