Editing Wales (section)

==Etymology==
{{main|Etymology of Wales|Cymru}}
The English words "Wales" and "Welsh" derive from the same [[Old English]] root (singular {{lang|ang|[[*Walhaz|Wealh]]}}, plural {{lang|ang|Wēalas}}), a descendant of [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] {{lang|gem-x-proto|[[*Walhaz|Walhaz]]}}, which was itself derived from the name of the [[Gauls]] known to the Romans as [[Volcae]]. This term was later used to refer indiscriminately to inhabitants of the [[Western Roman Empire]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Katherine L. |date=2014 |title=The Semantic Field of Slavery in Old English: Wealh, Esne, Þræl |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8031/1/Katherine%20Miller%20Semantic%20Field%20of%20Slavery%20in%20Old%20English%20v%203.pdf |access-date=8 August 2019 |publisher=University of Leeds |type=Doctoral dissertation}}</ref> [[Anglo-Saxons]] came to use the term to refer to the [[Celtic Britons|Britons]] in particular; the plural form {{lang|ang|Wēalas}} evolved into the name for their territory, Wales.<ref name="Wales Hist 71">Davies (1994) p. 71</ref><ref name="Tolkien 1">{{cite book |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |title=Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures |publisher=University of Wales Press |year=1963 |location=Cardiff |pages=English and Welsh, an O'Donnell Lecture delivered at Oxford on 21 October 1955 |author-link=J. R. R. Tolkien |no-pp=true}}</ref> Historically in [[Great Britain|Britain]], the words were not restricted to modern Wales or to the Welsh but were used to refer to anything that Anglo-Saxons associated with Britons, including other non-Germanic territories in Britain (e.g. [[Cornwall]]) and places in Anglo-Saxon territory associated with Britons (e.g. [[Walworth, County Durham|Walworth]] in County Durham and [[Walton, Leeds|Walton]] in West Yorkshire).<ref>{{cite book |last=Rollason |first=David |title=Northumbria, 500–1100 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-521-04102-7 |location=Cambridge |publication-date=2003 |page=60 |chapter=Origins of a People |author-link=David Rollason}}</ref>

The modern Welsh name for themselves is {{lang|cy|Cymry}}, and {{lang|cy|[[Cymru]]}} is the Welsh name for Wales. These words (both of which are pronounced {{IPA|cy|ˈkəm.rɨ|}}) are descended from the [[Common Brittonic|Brythonic]] word ''combrogi'', meaning "fellow-countrymen",<ref name="Hist Wales 69">Davies (1994) p. 69</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |author-link=John Edward Lloyd |date=1911 |title=A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (Note to Chapter VI, the Name "Cymry") |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYwNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA191 |edition=2nd|location=London |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |publication-date=1912 |volume=I |pages=191–192}}</ref> and probably came into use before the 7th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Phillimore |first=Egerton |title=Y Cymmrodor |publisher=[[Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion]] |year=1891 |editor-last=Phillimore |editor-first=Egerton |volume=XI |location=London |publication-date=1892 |pages=97–101 |chapter=Note (a) to The Settlement of Brittany |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M35QO0vor-EC&pg=PA97}}; Davies (1994) p. 71, containing the line: ''Ar wynep Kymry Cadwallawn was''.</ref> In literature, they could be spelt {{lang|wlm|Kymry}} or {{lang|wlm|Cymry}}, regardless of whether it referred to the people or their homeland.<ref name="Hist Wales 69" /> The [[Romanization (cultural)|Latinised]] forms of these names, ''Cambrian'', ''Cambric'' and ''[[Cambria]]'', survive as names such as the [[Cambrian Mountains]] and the [[Cambrian]] geological period.<ref>{{Cite book |title=[[Chambers Dictionary|Chambers 21st Century Dictionary]] |publisher=Allied Publishers |year=2008 |isbn=978-81-8424-329-1 |edition=Revised |location=New Delhi |page=203}}; {{cite EB1911|wstitle=Cambria}}</ref>