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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 2005- » 2010 (January-February) » Archive through February 18, 2010 » Any program for reading Irish on the web? « Previous Next »

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Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 02:08 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Hi is there any program that will give me definitions for any Irish word I click on in Firefox/Opera? Thanks

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Curiousfinn
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Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 05:43 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Now that would be a godsend thing. Only I doubt there's no such thing, otherwise it would have been linked here somewhere, in multiple places, I believe.

I've relied heavily on:
- An Foclóir Beag, http://www.csis.ul.ie/focloir/
- Irish Dictionary Online, http://www.irishdictionary.ie/home
- Focal.ie, http://focal.ie/Home.aspx

An Foclóir Beag is completely Irish, but it has a wide database of words and definitions, it recognizes conjugated verbs, and inflected nouns and adjectives etc.

Irishdictionary.ie has a lot of words and example phrases, but it works half-butt at the moment, so currently you can't search Irish words (the verb search works both ways though). Its verb search wants plain unconjugated forms.

Focal.ie is a terminology database rather than a full-blown dictionary, but all the three fill up each other's shortcomings.

Then there's http://www.irishionary.com/ which further patches some gaps left over by the three previous.

But back to the original point - these all require manual labor to yield results. No pain, no gain.

Tine, siúil liom!

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Curiousfinn
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Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 07:34 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Messed up mo Bhéarla a bit... I doubt there are too many such programs, at least if they have to be free or cheap.

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