Penfro

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *Penn-broɣ (literally “land's head, land's end”). By surface analysis, pen (“head”) +‎ bro (“region”). Cognate with English Pembroke.

Proper noun

Penfro

  1. Pembroke (a town in Pembrokeshire, Wales)
  2. (historical) Pembroke (a cantref in the kingdom of Dyfed, later Deheubarth, in South Wales)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Penfro
radical soft nasal aspirate
Penfro Benfro Mhenfro Phenfro

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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