ensk.is

A free and open English-Icelandic dictionary

This repository contains the data files and software for ensk.is, a free and open public domain online English-Icelandic dictionary.

Download

You can download the dictionary in the following formats:

• ⇩ SQLite3 database
• ⇩ CSV document
• ⇩ Plain text

Background

The author of the original dictionary, Geir T. Zoëga (1857-1928), was an English language teacher and later rector at the Learned School of Reykjavík in the years 1883-1927. The first edition was published in 1896. The digitised, extended and sanitised version presented here is based on the much-improved 1932 edition edited by Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson.

The current incarnation of the dictionary has been heavily edited, updated and fixed in accordance with modern Icelandic orthography. Many additions have been made to bring the vocabulary into the 21st century. Various errors in the original text were also corrected.

Contributing

The raw dictionary text files are stored here.

Additions can be viewed here.

Deployment

Ensk.is an ASGI web application implemented using the FastAPI Python web framework. To deploy it, you need to set up a Python virtual environment (3.8+) and install dependencies:

virtualenv -p /path/to/python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

To build the dictionary data files from plain text source files, run the following command:

python gen.py

Run the web application via uvicorn:

uvicorn app:app --reload

Should also work with any other reasonable ASGI server.

Development

All new dictionary entries should be appended to data/dict/_add.txt.

To verify the syntax and references of all entries, you can run:

python verify.py

Dictionary License

This dictionary itself is in the public domain within all countries where permitted.

The authors waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the Creative Commons 0 (CC0) 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

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Source license

Copyright (c) 2021-2024 Sveinbjorn Thordarson <sveinbjorn@sveinbjorn.org> All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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