Early Irish Glossaries Database (EIGD)

The Early Irish Glossaries Database is a collaborative digital research project hosted by ASNC, providing transcriptions, search engines, and concordance tools for major early Irish lexical compilations.

Corpus of Texts Included

  • Sanas Cormaic (Cormac's Glossary): Preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan, Leabhar Breac, and the Book of Uí Maine.
  • O'Mulconry's Glossary (De origine scoticae linguae): Extensive etymological and grammatical commentary.
  • Dúil Dromma Cetta (The Collection of Druim Cett): Ancient legal and poetic glosses.
  • Loman and Irsan: Shorter grammatical and lexical treatises.