Meaning: (The People, Geography name:
the Latin form of Cymru, the Welsh name for
Wales, derived from
"cymry". Also the name of a period of prehistoric time (part of the
Paleozoic era)
Cambria is the classical name for Wales, being
the Latinised form of the Welsh name Cymru
(Wales).
The etymology of Cymry
"the Welsh", Cimbri, and Cwmry"Cumbria",
improbably connected to the Biblical Gomer and the "Cimmerians" by
17th-century celticists, is now known to come from Old Welsh combrog "compatriot;
Welshman", from the root *brogi
"country"; "territory" (cf. Welsh, Cornish, Breton bro "territory";
"country"), itself from *mrogi
(cf. Old Irish mruig, gen. mroga "country"), deriving
from an old Brythonic word *com-brogi
or Proto-Brythonic *kom-brogos,
meaning "fellow countryman"; "compatriots", (as a result of
the struggle with the Anglo-Saxons) possibly therefore related to its sister
language Breton's keñvroad, keñvroiz,
"comrade", "compatriot".
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth
in the first part of his pseudohistory Historia
Regum Britanniae, the Trojan Brutus had three sons among whom (having
subdued Gogmagog) he divided his lands after landing in
Britain.
His elder son, Locrinus, received the land between the rivers Humber and
Severn, which he called Loegria
(a Latinization of the Welsh name Lloegr,
"England").
His second son, Albanactus, got the lands beyond the Humber, which took from
him the name of Albany (Yr Alban in Welsh: Scotland). The younger son, Camber,
was bequeathed everything beyond the Severn, which was called after him "Cambria”. This legend was widely prevalent throughout the
12th–16th centuries.
he name "Cambria"
lives on in much contemporary literature. It is also used in geology to denote
the geologic period between around 542 million years and 488.3 million years
ago; in 1835 the geologist Adam Sedgwick named this geological period the
Cambrian, after studying rocks of that age in Wales.It is also a rare female
name.)
Origin: (Latin, Welsh)
Pronunciation: (KAM-bree-ah, KAM-bree-ə)
Gender: Female
I saw a movie actress named this. I thought at first that is
a bit weird but it is actually quite pretty. It has nice meanings and an
interesting history. It is a very unique name but not too crazy.
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