An diofar eadar na mùthaidhean a rinneadh air "Faclairean Gàidhlig"
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The first dictionary in the modern sense was published in 1780 by the Rev. William Shaw, the ''Galic and English Dictionary'', which contained a large percentage of [[Irish language|Irish]] terms.<ref name=comp/> This was quickly followed by Robert MacFarlane's small-scale dictionary, ''Nuadh Fhoclair Gaidhlig agus Beurla'' ("New Gaelic and English dictionary") in 1795.<ref name=comp/> Exactly 10 years later Peter MacFarlane, a translator of religious publications published the first bidirectional dictionary in 1815, the ''New English and Gaelic Vocabulary - Focalair Gaelig agus Beurla''.<ref name=comp/>
Although the [[Highland Society of Scotland]] had set up a committee in 1806 to produce a full-scale dictionary, but was beaten by [[Robert Archibald Armstrong|Robert Armstrong]] who published his ''Gaelic Dictionary'' in 1825, followed three years later by the Highland Society's dictionary in 1828 entitled ''Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum - A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language I & II''.<ref name=comp/><ref>''Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum - A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language'' Highland Society of Scotland 1828</ref>
Various other dictionaries followed, most notably [[Alexander Macbain]]'s ''Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language'' in 1896,<ref name=comp/> to date the only such publication in Gaelic.
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