Welsh Academy English – Welsh Dictionary
The Welsh Academy English – Welsh Dictionary (Welsh: Geiriadur yr Academi) is the most comprehensive dictionary to date for the English-Welsh language pair. It is the result of years of work by editors Bruce Griffiths and Dafydd Glyn Jones. It was released in 1995 and re-released as a revised version in September 2003.
The voluminous volume with over 1,700 pages (p. Lxxxi + 1716) was published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the Yr Academi Gymreig . It contains a wide variety of Welsh names for new terms in science, technology, computers, business, mass media, education, etc.
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Printed version
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Geiriadur yr Academi (University of Wales Press, 1995; new edition September 2003), ISBN 978-0-7083-1186-8
- with English title: The Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary
Online version
An online version of the dictionary was published in February 2012.
The online version was developed by the Language Technologies Department, Canolfan Bedwyr, Bangor University. It is possible to browse the version online using a Welsh or English interface. In 2018, according to Alexa Rank, an average of 9,735 people visited the online dictionary (lexicographyracademi.org).
According to Bruce Griffiths, since around 2008 it has not been technically possible to expand the dictionary in the printed version because the printer cannot change the main text. He said in Golwg : "You have printed corrections as an appendix to the main text. Unfortunately the online version does not contain this appendix. For example, the word website does not exist (at line), but it is in the appendix in the printed version. "