Cymraeg

Cymraeg proper noun: the Welsh language.

Proper noun

Cymraeg

(rare) The Welsh language.
- While some families of the oldest Welsh stocks talk English only, a large number, whose forefathers were Teuton, Norse, or Irish, now converse in Cymraeg. […] The natural conclusion is that the Silurians or Iberians, now represented by the little, dark Welshmen, are the oldest existing race in...1881, James Bonwick, Who Are the Welsh? (Our Nationalities; III), London: David Bogue, […], pages iv, 46, and 48
- But this does not mean that parallelism took place; contrary to the opinion of Professor T.F. O’Rahilly, Cymraeg shook off most of its archaic features long before its sister language. […] Cymraeg could only have been developed, as Professor Jackson is forced to admit, north of Hadrian’s Wall. […]...1975, Arthur Henry Evans, English Historians and Welsh History: An Examination, →ISBN, pages 12, 21, and 53

A few of the women have pre-school age children and are preparing in advance for the time when their children will be fluent in Cymraeg.1981, Carn, volumes 33–39, Celtic League, page 10, column 2:
I hated to leave her in a world she didn’t understand, but I was comforted by the kindness of the staff, and one day she came home speaking Cymraeg!2007, Edith Thomas, “Birth at 47”, in Lindsay Ashford, Rebecca Tope, editors, Strange Days Indeed: Autobiographical Stories about...
To use Cymraeg instead of ‘Welsh’ if you do not speak Welsh seems to me to run the risk of patronising those who do and criticising those who do not.[2013, John Goodby, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Under the Spelling Wall, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 46:
There are as many fluent-in-Cymraeg English-accented young people as there are Cymreig-accented old folk who’d lost their Cymraeg.2022, Julie Brominicks, The Edge of Cymru: A Journey, Bridgend: Seren, published 2023, →ISBN:

Unadapted borrowing from Welsh Cymraeg.

What does Cymraeg mean?: Cymraeg means the Welsh language.
How do you use Cymraeg in a sentence?: A few of the women have pre-school age children and are preparing in advance for the time when their children will be fluent in Cymraeg.
What part of speech is Cymraeg?: Cymraeg is a proper noun.

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