petit (fr) - small; petits pois cuits (fr) - cooked peas.
holos (Greek) - whole
alphabet; FDV: When a piece does duty for the whole we soon get used to an allforabit allphorabit. Here are selveram cued little petty petteet peas of quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as they are the pellets that make the tomtums tomtummy's payroll. Right are rocks and with these rocks rogues orangotangoes rangled rough & rightgoring rightgorong.
several; silver.
cue - to twist, braid; to make an indicatory mark on; petits pois cuits (French) - cooked peas.
peteet - small; of little importance or value
pea - the round seed of Pisum sativum, a well-known article of food; something small and round like the seed.
pecuniar = pecuniary - of, belonging to, or having relation to money.
inasmuch as - in so far as, in that, in view of the fact that, seeing that.
pellet - any globe, ball, or spherical body, usually one of small size.
tom tommy - a double breasted plough; tom (Danish) - empty; tummy - belly, stomach; FDV: that make the tomtums tomtummy's payroll.
payroll - a employer's list of those entitled to receive compenstion at a given time and of the amounts due to each; parole (French) - word.
roll - a quantity of bills or notes rolled together; hence, the money a person possesses.
rank - to form a rank or ranks, to stand in rank; FDV: Right are rocks and with these rocks rogues orangotangoes rangled rough & rightgoring rightgorong.
ragnarok - in Scandinavian mythology, the destruction of the gods or the twilight of the gods; spec. the last battle of this world, in which gods and men will be defeated by monsters and the sun will grow dark → often mistranslated as twilight of the gods; Ragnar Lodbrok - a 9th century Danish warlord, said by some to have fathered Ivar the Boneless, who was a prominent Norse king of Dublin.
rox - to decay rocks
orangutan - an anthropoid ape
rangle - to rove, wander; to argue noisily or vehemently
wisha - Used as an intensive or exp. of surprise: indeed, well; FDV: Wisha, wisha, whydidthe whydidtha? This Thik is for thorn that's tuck in its toil like tom tomfool's anger traitor thrust for vengeance. What a [mnice old mness it mnakes,] middenhide's mniddenhide's hoard of abjects! olives, bats, kimmels, dollies, alfrids, ____, pethers gormons daltons [&] Oiolets' eegs creakish with ____ the hoopoocough age [& now] quite epsilene [waweldy's oldwoldy & wobblewers] not hand worth a wipe of a grass. Sss! See the snake worms wurrums everywhere our durst durl bin is sworming with sneaks! Subdivide and sumdolot and but the tale comes out the same balifuson.
tha (Þa) (Old English) - then, when
thik - that same, this, that; FDV: This Thik is for thorn that's tuck in its toil like tom tomfool's anger traitor thrust for vengeance.
thorn (Old English, Old Norse) - the letter Þ, pronounced th ([θ] or [ð])
thrust - a forcible push or pushing thirst
hoard - an accumulation or collection of anything valuable hidden away or laid by for preservation or future use, a stock, store, esp. of money.
Alef, bet, gimel, dalet - the first four letters of the Hebrew alphabet → the Old Testament was written in Hebrew.
beet - a plant or genus of plants (N.O. Chenopodiacea), having, in cultivation, a succulent root much used for food, and also for yielding sugar.
kimmel - a tub used for brewing, kneading, salting meat, and other household purposes.
dolly - a pet name for a child's doll
owlet - an owl; a young owl or little owl
bleakish - rather pale (obs.)
fromage (fr) - cheese
quite - rather, to a moderate degree
wobble - an unsteady rocking motion or movement w
haud (l) - not
keep of the grass - do not take liberites; FDV: not hand worth a wipe of a grass. Sss!
worm - to move or progress sinuously like a worm; wurm (obs) - snake, worm.
to swarm in - to be crowded with
sneak - a sneaking person snakes
(notebook 1923): 'triangular Spain'
prairie - a tract of level or undulating grass-land, without trees, and usually of great extent.
rare = rear - to erect by building, construct, elevate, raise
caldron - a large kettle, a natural formation suggesting a cauldron; cargo - a ship-load; (notebook 1924): 'S came in a cargo of fruit' (it is unclear whether the initial S is an *S* siglum or simply an abbreviation for 'snakes'); Genesis 3:3: 'the tree which is in the midst of the garden'; Freeman's Journal 22 Feb 1924, 8/4: 'By the Way': 'The ss. Reventazon was landing a cargo of bananas from Jamaica when a strange little creature was discovered hiding among the fruit... its precise genus seems to have baffled everyone... Now, what is it?'
prohibitive - that forbids or restrains from some course of action; forbidden fruit → Genesis 3, the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden.
pome - a fruit of the apple kind or resembling an apple; pomme (fr) - apple; pome fruit - a plant that bears pomes; fruct = fruit.
paddy - rice; Irishman; policeman, cop
Wippingham, Paddy - (1) St Patrick; (2) Dick Whittingtom; (3) The Wippingham Papers by Swinburne.
cotch - catch; William Shakespeare: Macbeth III.2.13: 'We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it'.
prick - erect and pointed quicker prick (Slang) - penis.
Genesis 2:23: 'she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man'.
tally - any tangible means of recording a payment or amount; FDV: Subdivide and sumdolot and but the tale comes out the same balifusion.
Clodd: The Story of the Alphabet 203: (of the Ogam alphabet) 'The alphabet is divided into four aicmes or groups, each containing five letters: the first aicme, B, L, F, S, N... the fourth aicme, comprising the vowels A, O, U, E, I'
racketeer - one who extorts money
bootlegger - one who carries liquor in his boot-legs; hence, an illicit trader in liquor
axe - the axle of a wheel ace FDV: Axe plays on axe thwacks on axe acks thracks axewise. One by one please place one be three and one before. Two nursus one make free tree free and idem behind. What a tale to unfurl & with what an end in view of squattor autosquattor auntisquattor & postprone . . . .squattor postproneauntisquattor! And to say that we us to be are all every tim mick & larry of us, sons of the sod, sons littlesons, yea & weelittlesons leastlittlesons when we are usses not to be every sue, ciss & sally of us, dugters of Jor Nan. Accusative ahnsire! Dam to infinities!
thwack - bang, whack, to strike with something heavy two
thrack - to pack full, fill, to load three; tracks
one by one - one after another, one at a time
ditto - the aforesaid, the same; Used, in accounts and lists to avoid repetition of a word or phrase appearing above.
plausible - worthy of being applauded, agreeable, popular
idem (l) - the same
start off - to set out, to begin a journey; to begin to move, to leave the point of departure in any kind of progression.
boa - a genus of serpents native to the tropical parts of S. America
threelegged - having three legs; Crow, Master Kung: The Story of Confucius p. 49: “Three-legged calves, big snakes, the discovery of rocks of strange appearance” [examples of omens]; three-legged - the siglum Joyce uses in his notes and drafts for the combined Shem-Shaun character has three legs
calver - a pregnant cow
Igraine - mother of King Arthur
jade - a contemptuous name for a horse; a horse of inferior breed, e.g. a cart- or draught-horse as opposed to a riding horse; Crow: The Story of Confucius, Master Kung 45: (before Confucius's birth) 'a fabulous animal known as a chi lin appeared before the prospective mother, bearing in its mouth a jade tablet inscribed with a message prophesying future greatness for the son then about to be born. The young girl tied a silken scarf around the single horn of the animal and it disappeared the same night, only (according to the story) to reappear more than seventy years later, just after the death of Master Kung'.
Crow: The Story of Confucius, Master Kung 43: (in ancient China) 'Most of the writing done was laboriously inscribed with a stylus on slips of bamboo... a book the size of the volume now in the reader's hands would fill a small truck. It was said of one industrious scholar that he read 'a hundredweight daily''.
liberorumque (Latin) - and of children; librorumque (Latin) - and of books; queue (fr) - penis.
con - to get to know; to study or learn, esp. by repetition; con (fr) - vulva.
All Hallows Day - All Saints' Day; the first of November; All Hallows' Eve (Archaic) - Halloween.
unfurl - to open or spread out
Tom, Dick and Harry - any man taken at random
larry - confusion, excitement, noise; a long handled hoe
the (old) sod - one's native district or country; spec., Ireland
little son - a grandson
lea - land 'laid down' for pasture, pasture-land, grass-land
siss - hiss
sally - the european house wren
accusative - marking direct object (gram.); accusing
answer; Ahn (ger) - ancestor.
nullus - no one, nobody; in illis diebus (l) - 'in those days', Latin formula used in the Mass to introduce Lesson; in nullis diebus (l) - in no days; Nile - Egyptian river, associated with papyrus reeds, from which Egyptian "paper" was made and from which the word paper is derived.
as yet - up to
this time, hitherto;
FDV:
True there was no lumpend
paper
papeer as yet in the waste and the
mountain pen still groaned for the micies to deliver him. You gave me a boot (signs
on it!) and I ate the wind. I tipped
quizzed
you a quid (with for what?) and you went to quod. But the world, mind,
is, was & will
be writing its own runes
wrunes
for ever, man, on all matters that fall under the ban of our senses. A
bone, a pebble, a ramskin: chip them, chop
chap
them, cut them allways: leave them to terracook in the
slow
slowth of
their oven
mutthering pot:
and the day
gutenmorg
of a magnum charter we
must one way dawn else there is
is there
no virtue more in alcohoran. For that is what paper is made of, made of, hides
and hints and misses in prints. Till we finally (though not yet for all) meet
with the acquaintance of Mr Typ, Mrs Top and all the little typtoppies —
Fillstop
Fillstap.
So you need hardly tell
spell
me that every word will be bound to carry 3 score & ten tomtypsical
readings through the book of life
Ballyliving
duble ends out
till Daleth, who opened it, closes thereof
the door. In the lower margin Joyce wrote:
Lumpenpapier (German) - rag paper
penn = pen (obs.); parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus (l) - the mountains are in labor, a laughable little mouse is born (when much is promised, little performed).
groan - to breathe with a deep-toned murmur; to utter a low deep sound expressive of grief or pain; to yearn or long, as if with groans.
ancientry - ancient times, antiquity
give (I) the boot - to dismiss (someone from his job) or end a relationship with (someone), kick out, dismiss.
signs on it (Anglo-Irish) - consequently, therefore, as a result (from Anglo-Irish: tá a shliocht air or Anglo-Irish: tá a rian air).
to eat the air - to have vain hopes; wind - Applied to something empty, trifling, or unsubstantial.
quiz - to question, interrogate; to find out (a thing) by questioning; quis (l) - who; quid (l) - what.
quid - a sovereign; one pound sterling; a piece of something (usu. of tobacco), suitable to be held in the mouth and chewed.
quid pro quo (Latin) - an exchange (literally: "what for what")
quod - prison; go to the bad - to develop a bad character; quod (l) - 1) because; 2) that (conjunction).
anima mundi (Latin) - the World Soul, believed by ancient philosophers to be the soul of the Universe.