Typographic Conventions
-- Lines beginning, like this one, with two hyphens are not part of the
-- original text, but contain added documentation, page numbers, etc.
--
-- Typographic representation in ASCII
-- [...] italics
-- <...> bold
-- @G[...] Greek (always italics)
-- @+[...] superscript (Seems to be used only for volume nos in journal refs)
-- / acute on preceding letter
-- \ grave on preceding letter
-- ^ circumflex on preceding letter
-- @" umlaut on preceding letter
-- @, cedilla on preceding letter
-- @. dot below preceding letter
-- @- macron(?) (horizontal line) above preceding letter
-- @~ tilde above preceding letter
-- @o ring above preceding letter
-- @u breve(?) (tiny `u'-like mark) above preceding letter
-- @n semi-circle like inverted breve above preceding letter (Greek)
-- @' comma above preceding letter (Greek)
-- @` backward comma above prededing letter (Greek)
-- @g a curly lower case `g', distinct from an ordinary `g'
-- @? other accent (to be inserted later) on preceding letter
-- @ae "diphthong" `ae' character
-- @oe "diphthong" `oe' character
-- @th `thorn' character
-- @dh `eth' character
-- ?? a character which cannot be identified, or appears wrong,
-- or something needing sorted out later
-- ++ dagger mark (indicates obsolete word)
--
-- Greek alphabet transliteration
-- alpha a nu n
-- beta b xi x
-- gamma g omicron o
-- delta d pi p
-- epsilon e rho r
-- zeta z sigma s
-- eta c tau t
-- theta q upsilon u
-- iota i phi f
-- kappa k chi h
-- lambda l psi y
-- mu m omega w
-- The letter j also occurs in Greek words quoted in the Dictionary.
--
-- Lines of the text are strictly adhered to, except that words split
-- across successive lines by a hyphen are recombined and inserted
-- on the first line.
-- Punctuation is moved out of quotes where the logic of parsing dictates this,
-- e.g. "sharp bush or tree"; where the book has "sharp bush or tree;".
-- If a word referred to (i.e. an italicised word) has a capital letter
-- purely because it is at the beginning of the sentence, I have changed
-- the capital letter to lower case.
-- Punctuation is corrected in the relatively small number of instances where
-- it is obviously incorrect according to the conventions used elsewhere in
-- the dictionary.
--
-- Comments added to the original text have put put on separate lines,
-- beginning with three dashes and the initials of the commentator. e.g.
-- ---KPD: More likely to be from ...
-- Initials used:
-- KPD Kevin P. Donnelly
-- JP John Phillips <john@uk.umist.ccl>
--
-- Suggestions for future modernisations:
-- - Change "aspirate" to "lenite"
-- - Change "small" to "slender"
-- - Change the likes of "see next word" to an explicit cross-reference.
-- This is needed if the dictionary is going to be updated, or
-- supplementary words merged, or the dictionary stored in a database.
-- (Such instances have been marked with ">>" to facilitate future
-- editing.)
-- - Standardise references, which usually contain a volume number in
-- superscript (@+).
-- - Standardise the following abbreviations:
-- "Cor.", "Corn." for Cornish
-- "Sl.", "Slav." for Slavonic
-- "D.of L.", "D.of Lis." for Dean of Lismore
--
-- Air a chur air a' riomhadair aig Caoimhín Pádraig Ó Donnaíle
-- Earraid House, Biggar Road, Dún Éideann, EH10 7DX, Alba
-- Ag tòiseachadh 1990-03-14; criochdaichte 1990-10-10
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An asterisk (*) denotes always a hypothetical word; the sign (++) denotes
that the word is obsolete. The numeral above the line denotes the number
of the edition or the number of the volume.