Subject guides: Celtic and Scottish Studies: Dictionaries

This guide provides a general introduction to Library resources relating to Celtic and Scottish Studies.

Library dictionaries & encyclopedias

The Compact Scottish National Dictionary : containing all the Scottish words known to be in use or to have been in use since c.1700, arranged partly on regional lines and partly on historical principles (2 volumes) by William Grant and David D. Murison
Call Number: Main Library (REFERENCE) - 2nd floor Ref. Folio PE2106 Com.
Publication Date: 1986
The Concise Scots Dictionary by Mairi Robinson
Call Number: University Collections Facility Special Collections - Stored offsite EUP.Add.18
ISBN: 9781902930008
Publication Date: 2005
The Concise Scots Dictionary by Mairi Robinson
Call Number: Main Library (STANDARD LOAN) - 3rd floor PE2106 Con.
Publication Date: 1987
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue : from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth (12 volumes) by William A. Craigie
Call Number: Main Library Closed Stack Ref. .4 Eng/4 Sco. Cra. & Scottish Studies Library (Reference)
Publication Date: 1931-
Dictionary of the Scots Language / Dictionar o the Scots Leid
Call Number: Online access
Publication Date: 2001-2004
Essential Gaelic dictionary by Boyd Robertson and Ian Macdonald
Call Number: Main Library (HUB RESERVE) - Ground floor PB1513 Rob. and other locations
ISBN: 9781444103991
Publication Date: 2010
The Essential Scots Dictionary : Scots-English, English-Scots by Iseabail Macleod and Pauline Cairns
Call Number: Scottish Studies Library (REFERENCE) - may be stored off-site Scott. Stud. Lib. A1(S)
ISBN: 1474472451
Publication Date: 2004
Gaelic dictionary by Boyd Robertson and Ian Macdonald
Call Number: Main Library (STANDARD LOAN) - 2nd floor PB1513 Rob. and other locations
ISBN: 0340753412
Publication Date: 2004
The Online Scots Dictionary
Call Number: Online access
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Call Number: Online access
Publication Date: 2000-
Scottish Gaelic Languages - Dictionaries (historical)
Call Number: Centre for Research Collections
Publication Date: 18th - early 20th century
13 historical dictionaries of Scottish Gaelic

Free online dictionaries

Historical Irish Corpus 1600 - 1926 You can search here for words and phrases in a range of over 3000 texts published in Irish between 1600 and 1926. Search results can be selected and words and phrases can be read in the context in which they were originally written.
Scottish Gaelic Dictionary
CELT : Corpus of Electronic Texts Free Digital Humanities Resource for Irish history, literature and politics.

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Celtic and Scottish Studies

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