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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary list titled 'Coir anan san'. Copy 2, Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/5/12
Scope and Contents A list of words, which may have been used to compile notes on Gaelic manuscripts, or was in preparation for a dictionary. As well as translations and explanations in English for most listed words*, there is a note of which manuscript and on which page of the manuscript the word can be found.The word list starts at A: annoid. There is no translation given for this word, but it is probably cognate with modern Scottish Gaelic word ...
Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

Vocabulary lists headed 'Index and Notes', early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/5/7
Scope and Contents A list of words, which may have been used to compile notes on Gaelic manuscripts, or was in preparation for a dictionary. As well as translations and explanations in English or each listed word, there is a note of which manuscript and on which page of the manuscript the word can be found.
The word list starts at A: ard, meaning 'a height'.
The word list ends at u: ús, meaning 'surname' or 'declaration, narrative'.
Dates: early 20th century