The following statistics are based on approximately two thirds of the finished Dictionary, i.e. the figures below have been extrapolated to show the likely totals for each item listed.
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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
Irish: 2,577
Cornish: 2,176
Latin: 2,127
Middle English: 1,235
Celtic: 903
French: 464
Brittonic: 384
Indo-European: 356
Greek: 287
Gaulish: 256
Old English: 195
Sanskrit: 63
German: 52
Hebrew: 46
Scottish Gaelic: 26
Norwegian: 24
Gothic: 14
Spanish: 12
Italian: 10
Old Norse/Nordic/Norwegian: 10
Lithuanian: 5
Arabic: 5
Armenian: 5
Goedelic: 5
Slav(on)ic: 5
Pictish: 4
Oscan: 4
Hittite: 4
Dutch: 2
Avestan: 2
Old Slavonic: 2
Latvian: 2
Umbrian: 2
Russian: 1
Ogam: 1
Persian: 1
Saxon: 1
Vedic: 1
Celtiberian: 1
Danish: 1
Old Prussian: 1
Islandic: 1
Malagasy: 1
Manx: 1
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) 1,770,000
+ additional material in
supplementary collections: c. 600,000
* = can often contain more than one word/combination. OED1 = original
edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1928); OED2 =
the second edition (1989); GAG = Dictionary of the Welsh Academy
(1995).
** = including figurative and transferred meanings.
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eg., eg.b. (masc. noun + masc./fem.) 36,414 a. (adjective or adjectival) 9,644 eb., eb.g. (fem. noun + fem./masc.) 11,858 bg., bg.a. (intrans. verb + intr./trans) 6,389 ba. (transitive verb) 3,995 a.bfl. (verbal adjective) 1,891 bach. (diminutive form) 1,046 be. (verb-noun) 726 e.tf. (collective noun) 456 ardd. (preposition) 434 adf. (adverb) 392 e.c. (common noun) 319 ebd. (exclamation) 170 rh. (pronoun) 127 trf. (ending) 120 cys. (conjunction) 85 rhgdd. (prefix) 70 rhif. (numeral) 60 gn. (particle) 47 [ Top ]
-en 278 -yn 182 -es 95 [ Top ]
-(i)au, -nau, -fau 33,222 -(i)on, -yddion 3,742 -wyr 3,130 -(i)aid 1,698 -(i)oedd, -noedd 1,398 -(n)i 891 -s 751 -(fe)ydd 712 -(n)od 663 -dai, -tai 289 -wragedd 141 -gwn 112 [ Top ]
circumflex c. 2,000 (56%) diaeresis or umlaut c. 880 (25%) acute accent c. 500 (14%) grave accent c. 160 (5%)
* = Only those abbreviations are shown which have a frequency of occurrence
of 40 or more.
** = 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).
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