Cumbrian

Part of speech: adjective, noun

Definitions

1. Relating to the county of Cumbria in northwest England, its landscape, people or culture ; a native or inhabitant of that county in the northwest of England
2. Of or connected with Cumbria, the rugged northwestern English county of lakes and fells ; someone who was born in or lives in Cumbria
3. Describing things associated with the English county of Cumbria in the northwest ; a person originating from or residing in that northwestern English county

Etymology: Cumbria takes its name from the Cymry, the Welsh-speaking Britons who held the old kingdom of Strathclyde and the northwest of England. The Old English name for the region, "Cumbraland", meant "land of the Cymry", and the modern county name Cumbria is a shortened, later form of that same root. The word "Cumbrian" is simply the county name with the suffix "-n" added, the ordinary way English turns a place name into a word for its people or its things. Because the English form is a plain derivative, there is no separate story behind it: the adjective and the noun for an inhabitant were both built from the place name in the same way.