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English
Etymology
From Cambria.
Prefix
Cambro-
- Welsh.
1795 November 19, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:[T]hough a good Cambro-Briton as I hope, and properly Zealous for my Countrys Glory, I have lived too long in England not to laugh when reading of Madog and Fadog and Cywrgie […] .
1868, Thomas Nicholas, The Pedigree of the English People, page 442:History proves that for centuries the Anglo-Saxons fought, formed treaties, intermarried with the Cymbric race [...] They even themselves passed through intermixture out of the properly Anglo-Saxon into the Cambro-Saxon phase, constituting in fact a new race.
1993, Martin John Ball, James Fife, The Celtic Languages, →ISBN, page 311:In present-day Colloquial Welsh borrowed nouns retain noun plurals in the exact shape that they occur in Cambro-English; for example (in north-western areas): [kondəktərs] 'conductors', loris 'lorries'.
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