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Cyfarwyddwr/Director: Yr Athro/Professor Patrick Sims-Williams (pps@aber.ac.uk)

[For text in English see below.]

Yn ddiweddar mae’r prosiect AHRC yn Adran y Gymraeg wedi bod yn cwblhau geiriadur o’r enwau Celtaidd sy’n ymddangos ar fapiau’r Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (gol. R. J. A. Talbert, Princeton, NJ, 2000; gw. http://www.unc.edu/awmc/batlas.html). Golygydd y geiriadur yw Dr Alexander Falileyev, sy’n gweithio i raddau ar sail gwaith ar Orllewin Ewrop gan ddau ymchwilydd Ph.D. ar yr un prosiect, sef Ashwin Gohil a Naomi Ward, ar yr un pryd â thorri tir newydd.

Er mwyn cael adborth, rhoir rhannau o’r gwaith ar y safle hwn ar ffurf pdf, gan ddechrau gyda’r llythyren A. Gobeithir ychwanegu enghreifftiau o lythrennau eraill yn y man. Rhennir y deunydd yn ddau:

1. pdf yn rhestru elfennau’r enwau perthnasol;
2. pdf yn cynnwys, mewn colofnau,
   1. rhif unigryw’r enw (ar gyfer croesgyfeiriadau) e.e. 6778 (ond lle mae’r Atlas yn cofnodi amrywiadau, defnyddir 6778a, 6778b, ayyb);
   2. cyfeiriad at y map yn yr Atlas a’r sgwâr perthasol e.e. 26A3 (gw. http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas/glocator.html);
   3. cyfeiriad at leoliad y lle yn ôl cornel de-orllewin y sgwâr (fel yn sustem y Grid Cenedlaethol Prydeinig, e.e. -10/38 ar gyfer 38° 40´ N / 9° 05´ W);
   4. gweddill y manylion.

Diolchwn yn gynnes i Dr Juan Luis García Alonso (Universidad de Salamanca) a’r Dr Eugenio R. Luján (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) sydd wedi rhoi sylwadau ar rai o’r enwau yn barod. Croesewir rhagor o sylwadau (pps@aber.ac.uk).

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The Arts and Humanities Research Council project in the Department of Welsh has recently been completing a dictionary of the Celtic names which appear on the maps of The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (ed. R. J. A. Talbert, Princeton, NJ, 2000; see http://www.unc.edu/awmc/batlas.html). The editor of the dictionary is Dr Alexander Falileyev, working to some extent on the basis of work on western Europe by two Ph.D. students on the project, Ashwin Gohil and Naomi Ward, at the same time as covering completely new areas himself.

In order to get feedback, parts of the work are being placed on this website in pdf form, beginning with the letter A. It is hoped to add other letters shortly. The material is divided into two parts:

1. a pdf listing the elements of the relevant names;
2. a pdf containing, in columns,
   1. the name’s unique number (for cross-references) e.g. 6778 (but where the Atlas records variants, 6778a, 6778b, etc. are used);
   2. reference to the map in the Atlas and the relevant square e.g. 26A3 (see http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas/glocator.html);
   3. reference to the place’s location by the south-western corner of the square (as in the system of the British National Grid, e.g. -10/38 in the case of 38° 40´ N / 9° 05´ W);
   4. the remaining details.

We are very grateful to Dr Juan Luis García Alonso (Universidad de Salamanca) and Dr Eugenio R. Luján (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) who have already made comments on some of the names. More comments are invited (pps@aber.ac.uk).

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Mae ffrwythau cynharach y prosiect hwn yn cynnwys yr eitemau canlynol:

The earlier results of this project include the following items:

David N. Parsons & Patrick Sims-Williams (ed.), PTOLEMY: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe. Papers from a workshop, sponsored by the British Academy, in the Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 11-12 April 1999, with contributions by Javier de Hoz, Juan Luis García Alonso, Eugenio R. Luján, Gregory Toner, Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Peter Anreiter, Ulrike Roider, Marialuise Haslinger, Joaquín Gorrochategui, Pierre-Yves Lambert, Paul Russell, and the Editors (2000). ISBN 0-9527478-3-9 Available for £12 post-free from CMCS, Department of Welsh, Old College, King Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales SY23 2AX, GB, by sending name, address, credit card number and expiry date. (Dim safle we./No website.)

G. R. Isaac, The Antonine Itinerary Land Routes: Place-Names of Ancient Europe and Asia Minor. An electronic database with etymological analysis of the Celtic name-elements (2002). Windows- and Macintosh-compatible CD-ROM. Available for £12 post-free from CMCS.

G. R. Isaac, Place-Names in Ptolemy's Geography. An electronic data base with etymological analysis of the Celtic name-elements, covering the ancient territories of Hibernia, Britannia, Hispania, Gallia, Germania, Raetia, Vindelicia, Noricum, Pannonia, Illyricum, Massiliotes, Liguria, Tusci, Gallia Cisalpina, Venetia, Istria, Sarmatia Europaea, Iazyges, Dacia, Moesia, Thracia, Chersonese, Pontus et Bithynia, and Galatia. (2004) Windows- and Macintosh-compatible CD-ROM. Available for £12 post-free from CMCS.

Javier de Hoz, Eugenio R. Luján, and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds), New Approaches to Celtic Place-Names in Ptolemy’s Geography (Madrid, 2005). ISBN 84-7882-72-X. Available from Ediciones Clásicas, San Máximo 31, 4° 8, Edificio 2000, 28041 Madrid, Spain http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/46730

Patrick Sims-Williams, Ancient Celtic Place-Names in Europe and Asia Minor, Publications of the Philological Society, 39 (Oxford, 2006). ISBN 1-4051-4570-6. Available from Blackwell: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/seriesbyseries.asp?ref=PPSZ

Patrick Sims-Williams (ed.), Additions to Alfred Holder’s Celtic Thesaurus by Georges Cousin together with an electronically searchable version of Holder’s headwords by Llinos Dafis & Ashwin Gohil and indexes to Joshua Whatmough’s ‘The Dialects of Ancient Gaul’ by Xavier Delamarre & G. R. Isaac. (2006). ISBN 0-9527478-4-7 [Book + Windows- and Macintosh-compatible CD-ROM] Available for £15 post-free from CMCS.

A. Falileyev, Vostočnije Balkany na karte Ptolemeya: Kritiko-bibliografičeskije razyskanija / Place-names of the Eastern Balkans in Ptolemy’s Geography: Critical-bibliographical Investigations. München: Biblion Verlag, 2006. – 167 p. 25,60 €. Available from the publisher at verlag@kubon-sagner.de.

Ymholiadau cyffredinol/General enquiries:
Yr Athro/Prof. Patrick Sims-Williams (pps@aber.ac.uk)

Safle'r Adran Gymraeg/Department of Welsh website:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/cymraeg-welsh/