Cumbria

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Cumbria, from Cumbri +‎ -ia (compare Old English Cumberland). The ethnonym Cumbri derives from Cumbric *Cumbri, cognate of Welsh Cymry.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌm.bɹi.ə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Proper noun

Cumbria

  1. (historical) A Brittonic kingdom in the Old North, also known as Strathclyde.
    • 2001, Michael Lynch, editor, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History:
      On the western side of the island, England and Scotland (and we probably can use these terms now) were still separated by the kingdom of Cumbria or Strathclyde which extended from Penrith to Govan.
  3. A county of northern England, formed in 1974 from Cumberland, Westmorland, and part of Lancashire.

References

  1. ^ Edmonds, Fiona (2014) “The Emergence and Transformation of Medieval Cumbria”, in The Scottish Historical Review‎[1], volume 93, number 2, pages 195–216

Further reading

Cumbria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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