stscoundrel/old-norwegian-dictionary-rs

Old Norwegian/Norse Dictionary for Rust. From "Dictionary of the Old Norwegian Language"

Old Norwegian Dictionary

Old Norwegian/Norse Dictionary for Rust. The dictionary consists of 40 000+ Old Norse words with Norwegian translations.

Based on "Dictionary of the Old Norwegian Language".

Install

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
old_norwegian_dictionary = "2.0.0"

Usage

use old_norwegian_dictionary::{get_dictionary, DictionaryEntry};

// Whole dictionary as an array of DictionaryEntries.
let dictionary = get_dictionary();

let dictionary_content: [DictionaryEntry; 42021] = get_dictionary();

println!("A word from dictionary: {}. Its definition is: {}. Its type if {}", &dictionary_content[0].word, &dictionary_content[0].definition, &dictionary_content[0].part_of_speech)

About "Dictionary of the Old Norwegian Language"

"Ordbog over det gamle norske Sprog" dictionary was published in late 1800s by Johan Fritzner. Its is the largest Old Norse to Norwegian dictionary, containing over 40 000 word definitions. While the original dictionary is called dictionary of "old norwegian", it is practically a dictionary of western Old Norse. Technically "Old Norwegian" would be a later stage in the language.

old-norwegian-dictionary-rs's Issues

Change to hardcoded static data source

Preliminary bench mark on reading json file to structs vs building them into hardcoded structs with static lifetimes suggests, that the latter approach is roughly 1000 times faster. Use old-norwegian-dictionary-builder to output Rust module that contains the whole dictionary.