[Lexicog] Now online and free: Dictionary of the Welsh Language (Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru)

[Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk [lexicographylist]]

The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh 
Language (Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru) 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 Oxford English Dictionary.

GPC Online (www.geiriadur.ac.uk) 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.

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.

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.

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: <http://www.geiriadur.ac.uk/>www.geiriadur.ac.uk

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Contact: Andrew Hawke, Managing Editor (geiriadur at cymru.ac.uk)


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