|
| Articles: (OED2: 291,627) |
84,386 |
|
Major cross-references
*: |
25,603 |
| Citations: (OED2: c. 2.5m) |
464,089 |
|
from John Davies' dictionary: |
18,889 |
| from the Bible (1588/1620): |
c. 11,000 |
|
from Pughe's dictionary: |
9,853 |
| Combinations
*: |
34,388 |
|
Variants
*: |
4,824 |
| Welsh definitions/synonyms: |
337,436 |
|
English definitions/synonyms: |
303,619 |
| figurative meanings**: |
6,594 |
|
main botanical meanings: |
1,340 |
| main legal meanings: |
462 |
|
Etymologies/derivations: |
86,005 |
| Languages mentioned in the
etymologies/derivations: |
14,156 |
| Breton: |
2,871 |
|
Armenian: |
5 |
| Irish: |
2,577 |
|
Goedelic: |
5 |
| Cornish: |
2,176 |
|
Slav(on)ic: |
5 |
| Latin: |
2,127 |
|
Pictish: |
4 |
| Middle English: |
1,235 |
|
Oscan: |
4 |
| Celtic: |
903 |
|
Hittite: |
4 |
| French: |
464 |
|
Dutch: |
2 |
| Brittonic: |
384 |
|
Avestan: |
2 |
| Indo-European: |
356 |
|
Old Slavonic: |
2 |
| Greek: |
287 |
|
Latvian: |
2 |
| Gaulish: |
256 |
|
Russian: |
2 |
| Old English: |
195 |
|
Umbrian: |
1 |
| Sanskrit: |
63 |
|
Ogam: |
1 |
| German: |
52 |
|
Persian: |
1 |
| Hebrew: |
46 |
|
Saxon: |
1 |
| Scottish Gaelic: |
26 |
|
Vedic: |
1 |
| Norwegian: |
24 |
|
Celtiberian: |
1 |
| Gothic: |
14 |
|
Danish: |
1 |
| Spanish: |
12 |
|
Old Prussian: |
1 |
| Italian: |
10 |
|
Icelandic: |
1 |
| Old Norse / Nordic / Norwegian: |
10 |
|
Malagasy: |
1 |
| Lithuanian: |
5 |
|
Manx: |
1 |
| Arabic: |
5 |
|
Tocharian: |
1 |
|
|
|
Ukrainian: |
1 |
| Comments at the end of articles: |
62,145 |
|
Total number of words: (GAG: c. 2m) |
7,919,371 |
Total number of slips in main citation
collection: (OED1: c. 5,000,000)
+ additional material in supplementary collections: |
1,770,000
c. 600,000 |
|
Notes
|
* = can often contain more than one word/combination.[Back]
** = including figurative and transferred meanings.
[Back]
OED1= original edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1928);[Back]
OED2 = the second edition (1989);[Back]
GAG = Dictionary of the Welsh
Academy (1995). [Back]
Table 2
|
|
|
|
Parts of speech* |
Plural forms** |
| eg., eg.b. (masc. noun + masc./fem.) |
36,414 |
|
-(i)au, -nau, -fau |
9,644 |
| a. (adjective or adjectival) |
33,222 |
|
-(i)on, -yddion |
3,742 |
| eb., eb.g. (fem. noun + fem./masc.) |
11,858 |
|
-wyr |
3,130 |
| bg., bg.a. (intrans. verb + intr./trans.) |
6,389 |
|
-(i)aid |
1,698 |
| ba. (transitive verb) |
3,995 |
|
-(i)oedd, -noedd |
1,398 |
| a.bfl. (verbal adjective) |
1,891 |
|
-(n)i |
891 |
| bach. (diminutive form) |
1,046 |
|
-s |
751 |
| be. (verb-noun) |
726 |
|
-(fe)ydd |
712 |
| e.tf. (collective noun) |
456 |
|
-(n)od |
663 |
| ardd. (preposition) |
434 |
|
-dai, -tai |
289 |
| adf. (adverb) |
392 |
|
-wragedd |
141 |
| e.c. (common noun) |
319 |
|
-gwn |
112 |
| ebd. (exclamation) |
170 |
|
| rh. (pronoun) |
127 |
Diminutive and feminine forms |
| trf. (ending) |
120 |
|
-en |
278 |
| cys. (conjunction) |
85 |
|
-yn |
182 |
| rhgdd. (prefix) |
70 |
|
-es |
95 |
| rhif. (numeral) |
60 |
|
| gn. (particle) |
47 |
|
Comparative frequency of the Welsh accents in the Dictionary's headwords |
| circumflex (e.g. î) |
c. 2,000 (56%) |
|
diaeresis or 'umlaut'-type mark (e.g. ï) |
c. 880 (25%) |
| acute accent (e.g. í) |
c. 500 (14%) |
|
grave accent (e.g. ì) |
c. 160
(5%) |
|
Notes |
*
= Only those abbreviations are shown which have a frequency of occurrence
of 40 or more. [Back]
** = Frequency of occurrence of 100 or more. Only those
forms specifically mentioned are included (e.g. -iynau is not included
in the total for -au). [Back] |
Table 1: Statistics regarding the number of different elements
in the Dictionary
