Sanas Cormaic
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The Sanas Cormaic (Cormac's Glossary; sometimes called Sanas Chormaic using modern rules of initial consonant mutation) is an Irish glossary containing etymologies and explanations of over 1,400 Irish words. It was created by Cormac mac Cuilennáin (836 – 908), king-bishop of Munster; it is an encyclopedic dictionary containing simple synonymous explanations in Irish or Latin of Irish words. In some cases he attempts to give the etymology of the words and in others he concentrates on an encyclopedic entry. It is held to be the first linguistic dictionary in any of the non-classical languages of Europe.
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- Three Irish glossaries : Cormac's glossary, O'Davoren's glossary and A glossary to the calendar of Oengus the Culdee. ed. Whitley Stokes. London : Williams and Norgate, 1862.
- Sanas Chormaic: Cormac's Glossary. translated and annotated by John O'Donovan. edited by Whitley Stokes. Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society. Calcutta: O.T. Cutter, 1868.
