[1] 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.
[1] 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.
[citation needed] The project draws on the Corpas na Gàidhlig, part of the Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic based at the University of Glasgow.
Except for place-name publications, specialist dictionaries remain rare and focus almost exclusively on the natural world or government terminology.
The most notable exception is An Stòr-dàta Briathrachais, a dictionary of general technical terminology published by the Gaelic college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.