Celtic Dictionaries

Bookends Sure, it's easy (relatively) to find Y Geiriadur Mawr, and some entirely decent Irish or Scots Gaelic references, like Faclair Gaidhlig-Beurla and MacBain's. But what about Manx? I was lucky to find this: Folkeyr Gaelg-Baarle, a Manx-to-English dictionary. One version available is in .pdf format, which means you need Adobe Acrobat as a viewer. This (Acrobat) can be downloaded, believe it or not, from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Bookends Da Mihi Manum is, alas, not available virtually, but there's a good bit of information about it at its site -- or there was, until it vanished. It's the first of its kind, translating between the Celtic languages (three versions of Cornish, mind you!) without "going out" to a Romantic or Germanic language, like Latin or English -- or French, for the speakers of Brezhoneg.

Bookends Found a couple non-Celtic dictionaries I figured might be of interest. There's a searchable French dictionary from 1606; and I also found a "Feudal Dictionary" which looks more like a glossary, and most SCAdians know this stuff already -- but why not look anyway?

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