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The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language (<i>Geiriadur
Prifysgol Cymru</i>) is now available online in a full version which is
freely accessible. It is the only standard historical dictionary of Welsh
and is broadly comparable in method and scope with the <i>Oxford English
Dictionary</i>. <br><br>
GPC Online
(<a href="http://www.geiriadur.ac.uk/" eudora="autourl">
www.geiriadur.ac.uk</a>) allows the user to search for Welsh headwords,
variant forms, and collocations, as well as synonymous words and phrases
in the English definitions. The vocabulary is defined in Welsh with
English synonyms, so GPC is not intended to be used as a translating
dictionary. However, when the English definitions are searched, the
results are ordered according to the relevance of the searched term in
the definition, so as to give precedence to synonymous words. <br><br>
GPC Online is the culmination of a process dating back to the early 1920s
when a reading programme was set up at the National Library of Wales by
the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies to read and collect
citations from all published Welsh material prior to 1800 together with a
large proportion of early Welsh manuscripts and later printed material.
Editorial work began in 1948/9 and the Dictionary was published in
64-page fascicles from 1950 onwards. The first edition was completed in
2002.<br><br>
Since then, work has been ongoing to completely re-edit and
comprehensively extend the very earliest sections dealing with A and B as
well as adding entirely new vocabulary throughout the alphabet.<br><br>
It has been the intention for some time that the Dictionary should go
online but it has been a long process as it was necessary to encode all
the Dictionary data – around eight million words in all – in XML. From
now on the Dictionary will be published online only, although the
previously published volumes and parts are still available to purchase.
Further details will be found on the GPC website:
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