An diofar eadar na mùthaidhean a rinneadh air "Faclairean Gàidhlig"

The first precursors of true [[Scottish Gaelic language|Gaelic]] dictionaries were the vocabularies, often little less than wordlists, which made their first appearance in 1702 with [[Rev. [[Robert Kirk (folklorist)|Robert Kirk]]'s wordlist, an appendix to [[William Nicolson]]'s ''Scottish Historical Library''.<ref name=comp>[[Derick Thomson|Thomson, D.]] ''The Companion to Gaelic Scotland'' (1994) Gairm ISBN 1-871901-31-6</ref> [[Edward Lhuyd]]'s Scottish field work between 1699-1700 contained substantial wordlists for [[Argyll]] and [[Inverness-shire]] dialects which, however, were not published until much later.