Cymric

Pertaining to Wales or sometimes more widely to British Celtic. The ancestor language and culture of Welsh, Breton, and Cornish.

Cymru

The land of comrades or of fellow-countrymen. It derives from the British combrogos, “compatriot.” See Cumbria and Wales.

Cynddelig

[W] A member of Arthur’s retinue who guides Culhwch in his quest for Olwen.

Cynddylan

[W] Son of Cyndrwyn, lord of Pengwern. He is mentioned in a seventh century elegy but also features in the later saga literature.

Cynghanedd

A metrical system of multiple alliteration and rhyme within every line of the Welsh strict poetic metre.

Cythrawl

[W] Identified as two primary existences, destruction and life.

Cywydd

A form of strict metre in Welsh poetry and a dominant form until the eighteenth century.