Cadeirydd: Charles Dillon
The second revised edition of the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) will be released in Summer 2019. This will incorporate around 5,000 additions, deletions and corrections made to the content of the dictionary since the last update in 2013. In the intervening period, entirely new entries have been created, ghost-words have been excised, previously unrecognised forms, uses and senses have been added, definitions have been emended, tenuous entries have been supported, and grammatical information has been supplied. Through a series of case studies, the present paper examines changes to the content, discussing both lexicographical considerations and the academic rationale behind these revisions.The second revised edition of the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) will be released in Summer 2019. This will incorporate around 5,000 additions, deletions and corrections made to the content of the dictionary since the last update in 2013. In the intervening period, entirely new entries have been created, ghost-words have been excised, previously unrecognised forms, uses and senses have been added, definitions have been emended, tenuous entries have been supported, and grammatical information has been supplied. Through a series of case studies, the present paper examines changes to the content, discussing both lexicographical considerations and the academic rationale behind these revisions.
This workshop will guide users through the advanced functions of the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL), showing them how to use options within 'advanced search', such as searching for definitions, translations, words in other languages, etc. It will also showcase the utility of the 'wildcard' search in contrast to searching with 'browse' and will discuss in what way both ways of searching can yield useful results. The new and improved usability of eDIL will be highlighted as well.
This paper will discuss how eDIL can be used to assess the various linguistic influences that form part of Ireland’s multilingual history, focussing in particular on the legacy of Old Norse. How representative and reliable are the 134 words allegedly from Old Norse currently recorded in eDIL and what can they reveal about the interaction between Norse and Irish speakers in the post-Viking period? How eDIL deals with words of Germanic origin more generally will be examined, in the light of recent research on Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary being carried out as part of the Cambridge-based Gersum project (www.gersum.org). Words of this type which are new in eDIL 2019 will be brought to the fore.