Originally developed for the Welsh Language Board (now replaced by the Welsh Language Commissioner) Geiriadur yr Academi Ar-lein is a digitized, freely accessible version of Geiriadur yr Academi – The Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary (Griffiths and Jones 1995) first published in print form and later digitized by the Language Technologies Unit to produce an on-line version.

Based on Harrap’s English-French dictionary it is considered to be the first modern comprehensive unidirectional English to Welsh dictionary and serendipitously appeared in time to help address the increased translation needs of post-devolution Wales. Launch in February 2012, the online version’s enhanced search facilities and free access has improved access to the dictionary’s contents. In addition to headwords, parts of speech, target language equivalents and their plurals, the dictionary includes phrases and their translations