Adam and Eve's - old Franciscan church in Dublin (on the south quays of river Liffey).

swerve - an act of swerving, turning aside, or deviating from a course

bend - curve

bay - an embankment or dam to retain water, or divert its course into a mill stream, etc.

commodious - comfortable, spacious, capacious

a vicious circle* - a situation in which a cause produces a result that itself produces the original cause;              vicus (l) - village, hamlet; street, row of houses, quarter of a city.

recirculation - a renewed or fresh circulation

environs - surroundings, outskirts

Tristram, Tristan - (1) Sir Amory Tristram from Armorica (Brittany), one of Ireland's Norman conquerors, founder of the St Lawrence family of Howth (Joyce: "Sir Amory Tristram 1st earl of Howth changed his name to Saint Lawrence, in Brittany (North Armorica)"); (2) Tristan of Lyonnesse (hero of medieval romance, nephew of Mark of Cornwall, lover of Isolde of Ireland);           Sir Tristrem - metrical romance by Thomas the Rhymer from 13. c.

violer - A player of the viol, in early use esp. one attached to the household of the king, a noble, etc.; a fiddler

d'amore (it) - of love

...A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted, so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

pas encore (fr) - not yet

rearrive - to arrive again

Armorica - name of the north-western part of Gaul, now called Bretagne or Brittany.

scraggy - rough, irregular or broken in outline or contour

isthmus - a narrow portion of land, enclosed on each side by water, and connecting two larger bodies of land; a neck of land.

minor - small

wielder - a ruler, governer; one who uses or acts skilfully;             wieder (ger) - again.

top sawyer - a worker at a sawpit who stands above the timber; one who holds a superior position, a first-rate hand at something                                                Tom Soyer

Oconee - river in Georgia;                          ochone - exclamation of regret or grief.

exaggerate - to heap up

Laurens county - county in northern South Carolina?                                   REFERENCE

gorgio - person who is not gipsy                         gorgeous                            Joyce, Giorgio (1905-1976) - James Joyce's son, once married to Helen Joyce, father of Stephen Joyce.

Dublin*, Georgia - Town, Laurens County, Georgia, US, on Oconee River. Joyce explained to Harriet Weaver that it was founded by a Dubliner named Peter Sawyer (actually it was Jonathan Sawyer), and that its motto was "Doubling all the time."   

mumper - beggar, a begging impositor, one that sulks                                           number

afire - flaming, on fire                                              a fire

bellows - to blow (with bellows);                           bellow - to call, yell;                        bellowed = the response of the peatfire of faith to the windy words of the apostle.                Letters, I, 248

Mishe = I am (Irish) i.e. Christian;            mische (ger) - mix;            Tauf = baptize (German);            Thou art Peter and upon this rock...

venison* - any beast of chase or other wild animal killed by hunting                                  very soon

scad - a dollar;                 hit squad - a group of esp. politically-motivated assassins or kidnappers.

buttend - to use the butt end (e.g. of a gun)

bland - suave, dull, uninteresting                                                  blind

Isaac - Isaac ben Abraham (known as Isaac the blind)                                                   REFERENCE

sosie - double, twin esp. an identical twin

wroth - to manifest anger, to become angry;                               Roth, Samuel - piratically published some of "Work in Progress" in Two Worlds (New York, 1925-26), and in 1926-27 published more than half of Ulysses. 

twenty nine;               (one) Jonathan Swift, "nathandjoe," and his amours with two girls, Esther Johnson (Stella) and Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa).

rot - to decompose

peck - a liquid measure of two gallons; a considerable quantity or number, a 'quantity'.

Jim;                                 Shem.

Shaun;                             John.

malt - barley or other grain prepared for brewing or distilling;           Willy Shakespeare brewed a peck of malt during a famine. 

that

brew - to concoct, to convert (barley, malt, or other substance) into a fermented liquor.

arclight = arclamp - a lamp in which the light is produced by an electric arc.

rory - dewy, gaudy in colour;               Rory - Joyce glosses the word (Letters, I, 248) thus: "rory = Irish = red"/ "rory = Latin, roridus = dewy"/ "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie." In FW, "rainbow" has the Biblical meaning of peace, covenant between God and man; "dew" is its opposite, a promise of continued war, because Vico says that, after the flood, the climate was dry and it did not thunder till after "dew" appeared.              Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake

regina (l) - a queen;                      Regen (ger) - rain                         rainbow

ringsum (ger) - all around

aqua (l) - water

gaireachtach (garokhtokh) (gael) - boisterous                                                O Hehir, Brendan / A Gaelic lexicon for Finnegans wake, and glossary for Joyce's other works

Donner (ger) - thunder

Varuna* - Hindu creator and storm god 

scan (scan) (gael) - crack

tornach (tornokh) (gael) - thunder

Wallstreet* - New York stock exchange;                      strait - difficulty, crisis.

Parr, Thomas, "Old Parr" (1483-1635) - lived in the reigns of ten princes, got a girl with child when oven a hundred;            parr - a young salmon before it becomes a smolt

retell* - to tell again;                      re - - 'again, 'anew';                         tale - to discourse, talk, gossip.

minstrelsy - the singing and playing of a minstrel;                   Christy Minstrels - black face troop which came from America to London in 1857. Moore and Burgess were their rivals. 

entail - to bring on by way of necessary consequence

at short notice - with little time for action or preparation

pfui* - an exclamation of contempt or disgust

Erse - Irish;                     Erseman - a man who is Erse by birth or descent.

humpty* - humped, hump-backed;                 Humpty Dumpty - A short, dumpy, hump-shouldered person. In the well-known nursery rime or riddle (quoted below) commonly explained as signifying an egg (in reference to its shape); thence allusively used of persons or things which when once overthrown or shattered cannot be restored. (In the nursery rime or riddle there are numerous variations of the last two lines, e.g. 'Not all the king's horses and all the king's men Could [can] set [put] Humpty Dumpty up again [in his place again, together again]'.)

promptly

inquiring* - that inquires, inquisitive

Weston, Jessie* - her book From Ritual to Romance is a principal source of Eliot's The Waste Land. FW straightforwardly associates her with the Grail Quest.                                Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake

quest - search

turnpike - a barrier placed across a road to stop passage till the toll is paid; a toll-gate;           pike - a sharp point, pointed tip, peak;
TURNPIKE - The Dublin turnpike system was introduced in the reign of George II. An 1821 map shows 10 Dublin turnpikes, almost all located on the North Circular Road and South Cicrcular Road at the crossing of main roads. The turnpike in Chapelizod was just East of the Phoenix Tavern (where the Mullingar House now stands) at the curve of the Dublin road to the bridge. It is described on the 1st page of Le Fanu's House by the Churchyard. The Dublin-Mullingar road was a turnpike road until 1853. 

cnoc (knuk) (gael) - hill;                            knock out - a knock-out blow.

rust - decompose;                     to lay to rest - to put in the last resting-place, to bury.