ISLEX 2026-02 compiled dictionaries
Compiled macOS Dictionary.app bundles built from ISLEX 2026-02, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
License and attribution (required if you redistribute these files further)
Data: ISLEX — Icelandic-Scandinavian multilingual dictionary (2026-02), edited by
Þórdís Úlfarsdóttir and Halldóra Jónsdóttir, published by
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum (The Árni Magnússon Institute for
Icelandic Studies), in collaboration with partner institutions in Denmark, Norway,
Sweden, the Faroe Islands and Finland.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — you may
share and adapt these files, including commercially, provided you give appropriate
attribution and distribute any derivative under this same license.
Source dataset: https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/376
Full attribution, including all six participating national teams, is in
CREDITS.md.
Build tooling that produced these bundles is MIT-equivalent (see
LICENSE);
the dictionary data itself remains CC BY-SA 4.0 as noted above.
Installing
- Download the
.dictionary.zipfor the language pair(s) you want. - Unzip it.
- Move the resulting
NAME.dictionaryfolder into~/Library/Dictionaries/. - Open Dictionary.app → Settings → enable it.
What's included
14 bundles: one Icelandic→Language and one Language→Icelandic dictionary for
each of Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, Faroese, and
Finnish, plus two combined "all Nordic languages at once" editions
(IcelandicNordic and NordicIcelandic). Icelandic-headword entries include
BÍN-powered inflection tables (declensions/conjugations) via the islenska
package.
See README.md for full details.