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Title: Focloir Gaedilge Agus Bearla = an Irish-English Dictionary
Description: Dublin: Published for the Irish Texts Society by the Educa, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 x 2 1/2; xxx, 1344 pages; Hard cover has green spine with gold lettering. Slight bumping and rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Originally published in 1927. This is a new, revised and greatly enlarged edition. "Pádraig Ó Duinnín worked on the Irish-English Dictionary – first edition – from 1901 to 1904...Dinneen (especially in the 1927 “greatly enlarged” edition) took a lead from the recently published Oxford English Dictionary, in supplying literary contexts for the meanings listed under each entry. A thesaurus of the words, phrases and idioms [Roget first appeared some fifty years previously], Dinneen’s work is often more like an encyclopaedia of pre-industrial manners, customs, lore, skills and crafts". A great linguistic treasure and invaluable resource.. Near Fine .

Keywords: Linguistics; Dictionaries; Reference; Irish; Anthropology ; Cultural Anthropology; Social History; Cultural History; Literature; Literature/Poetry/Classics Cultural History Education European History Geography English/British History Reference Anthropolog

Price: US$ 75.50 Seller: Pegasus Books
- Book number: 8508