Yasha (Japanese) - a female demon + Children’s game: ('circle' game) Ring-a-ring o'roses: 'Ash-a! Ash-a! All fall down'.
sassage = sausage + sasage (Japanese) - something to eat.
mash - mashed potatoes; esp. in the phr. sausage(s) and mash
bash - a good time; a spree, a party + on the bash - on a drinking bout.
glugger (Anglo-Irish) - foolish boaster; empty noise; egg that does not hatch (from Irish: gliogar).
dazed - benumbed in the mental faculties; stupefied, bewildered + dead + Children’s game: ('circle' game) Old Roger: 'Old Roger is dead and is laid in his grave' (in which dead Old Roger rises to chase an old woman picking apples from a tree growing over his grave; the game involves three actors (Roger, Tree, Old Woman) and chorus of girls).
crave - craving + Children's game: Old Roger ('Old Roger is dead and is laid in his grave')
ah (l) = ai (gr) - alas
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loo - Look! See! Behold! + song What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?: 'Low, boys, and up she rises'.
pitiful - exciting or fitted to excite pity; pitiable, piteous, deplorable, lamentable + spitty - resembling spit; spitting or inclined to spit.
woebegone - exhibiting great woe, sorrow or misery
woice = voice (obs.)
epitaph - an inscription upon a tomb. Hence, occasionally, a brief composition characterizing a deceased person, and expressed as if intended to be inscribed on his tombstone + ephathah! (Hebrew) - be opened! (Biblical).
susamis (Turkish) - thirsty
examen - a formal examination (of the conscience or soul)
scruple - to hesitate or be reluctant (to do something), esp. on conscientious grounds, or out of regard for what is fit and proper.
scemato (it) - lessened
nu = now; new + no + Nu - Egyptian god, representing the primeval watery mass from which all evolved and upon which floats the bark of millions of years + Nu mere (Danish) - 'now more'.
siden - to a great distance or length, far + siden (Danish) - 'since' or part of a time construction, e.g. ti aar siden, ten years ago.
stolen (Danish) - the seat + song Lament of the Irish Emigrant: 'sitting on the stile'.
tumescence - a becoming tumid, swelling up; a tendency to tumidity; spec. the swelling of a volcano as a result of increasing pressure of magma inside it + tumescens (l) - swelling up + inquinans (l) - befouling, staining, defiling.
domstol (Danish) - judgement seat
days + dag (Danish) - day.
synagogue - a building or place of meeting for Jewish worship and religious instruction + senga (Danish) - the bed + sgeng (Bog Latin) - bed.
Trinitatis (gr) - of the Trinity + song At Trinity Church I Met My Doom: 'I was an M-U-G'.
kink - a mental twist; an odd or fantastic notion; a crotchet, whim. In recent use also = a state of madness; an instance of, the practice of, or suffering resulting from sexual abnormality.
mud - to make (water, liquor) turbid by stirring up the mud or sediment at the bottom. Also fig. (Chiefly with reference to a metaphorical 'stream' or 'fount'.); to cover with mud.
peccation - the action of sinning, sin + peccat (l) - he [she, it] offends, sins + peccato (it) - sin, fault.
pent - shut up within narrow limits; closely confined, imprisoned + pente (gr) - five.
pree - to make proof or trial of; to try what (a thing) is like, esp. by tasting
himself (Anglo-Irish) - householder, manager
munchaol (Bog Latin) - bad
maden = maiden (obs.) - a man that has always abstained from sexual intercourse (obs.)
thug - a cutthroat, ruffian, rough
brood - a race, a kind; a species of men, animals, or things, having common qualities; Now usually contemptuous; = 'swarm, crew, crowd' + brood (Dutch) - bread.
blackmail - any payment extorted by intimidation or pressure + meel (Dutch) - flour (Pronunciation 'mail').
dooly = doly - doleful, sorrowful, sad + doulos (gr) - slave
redicans (l) - reconsecrating + redicens (l) - repeating + decanus (l) - leader of ten; a dean (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
bi- (l) - two, twice + genesis (l) - coming into being, generation + bigenesis (l) - twice-birth.
hen (gr) - one + Genesis.
betchennacht (Bog Latin) - blessing + bletch - to black + Blattchen (ger) - leaflet, membrane + Macht (ger) - power.
goll - a hand + goll (gol) (gael) - blind person + gods + goll (Bog Latin) - blind.
come off - to become detached; to detach oneself
selfsufficient - sufficient in or for oneself (itself) without aid or support from outside; able to supply one's needs oneself; In an unfavourable sense: Having excessive confidence in oneself, one's powers, etc.
commander-in-chief - In the Navy: The senior officer in any port or station appointed to hold command over all other vessels within the limits assigned to him.
throw dust in the eyes of - to confuse, mislead, or dupe by making 'blind' to the actual facts of the case + lavabat (l) - he [she, it] was washing.
make to - to tend or contribute to; to be favourable or conducive to; to go to support
polenta (it) - a yellow cornmeal dish + polenta (Amaro) - gold.
rosso (Amaro) - gold (literally 'red')
savour - to give a savour to; to season, flavour; to give tone or character to
swith (Old English) - strong
aftræk (Danish) - outlet + aftrek (Dutch) - deduction, rebate; sale; demand + aftrekken (Dutch) - to pull off, to masturbate + song Die stem van Suid Afrika (South Africa's National anthem, literally 'The voice of South Africa').
Bianconi, Charles - in the 19th century he provided Ireland with a transportation system and was known to Dubliners as Brian Connolly + bianconi (it) - the white ones + bianco (Amaro) - silver + bianconi (Anglo-Irish) - stage coach (after Charles Bianconi, an Italian who became the greatest Anglo-Irish mailcoach owner of early 19th century, using long carriages drawn by four horses).
terra cota - a hard unglazed pottery of a fine quality, of which decorative tiles and bricks, architectural decorations, statuary, vases, and the like are made; Terracuta (Amaro) - Italy.
lovability - lovableness
trinity - the festival of the Holy Trinity; Trinity Sunday
Columbanus (543-615) (l) - "Of Columba [Dove]": Irish missionary, founded 3 monasteries in France, also Bobbio in Italy, where he died + calembour (fr) - pun.
make a clean breast (phrase) - to make a full disclosure, to confess.
sip - a single act of sipping; a small quantity of some liquid taken in this way + soep (Dutch) - soup.
sweethearted - of sweet disposition + whitehaired boy (Anglo-Irish) - a favourite.
potter - a maker of pots, or of earthenware vessels + pater, mater (l) - father, mother.
mudder - a horse which runs well on a wet or muddy racecourse; transf., a sportsman or team similarly proficient.
chip of the old block - one that resembles his father, or reproduces the family characteristics + song Phil the Fluter's Ball.
twig - a slender shoot issuing from a branch or stem
hider - one who hides + hide - to remove the hide from; to flay (rare.); to beat the hide or skin of; to flog, thrash.
tan - to convert (skin or hide) into leather; to thrash soundly
calaboose - the name, in New Orleans and adjacent parts of the U.S., for a common prison + calaboosh (Beche-la-Mar) - jail.
Teufel (ger) - devil
mussy - untidy, rumpled, tousled
calico - a cotton cloth + calici (Amaro) - handcuffs (literally 'chalices').
blong (Beche-la-Mar) - of
he make what name? (Beche-la-Mar) - what does he make?
volcanic - relating to volcanoes + Wolken (German) = wolken (Dutch) - clouds.
blong (Beche-la-Mar) - of
molimen - an effort by which the system endeavours to perform any natural function, esp. menstrual molimen, the straining to bring about the catamenia + (notebook 1931): 'this remarkable man' → Trobridge: A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg 331: (quoting a Swedish father telling his son about Swedenborg) 'this remarkable man'.
anax andron (gr) - lord of men: epithet of Agamemnon in Homer's Iliad + (notebook 1930): 'Anak' + Numbers 13:33: 'And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants' (later conquered by Joshua) + anak (Malay) - child.
Jebusite - name of a tribe of Canaanites, dispossessed of Jerusalem by David. In 17th c., a nickname for Roman Catholics, esp. Jesuits + (notebook 1930): 'Jebusite (hegoat)' → Jabotinsky: Samson the Nazarite 19: '"Jebus?" said Ahtur. "Isn't that where the people worship a he-goat?" "Quite right," answered Machbonai. "They call their city Jerusalem"'.
centies (l) - 100 times + cent (fr) - hundred.
procent (Dutch) - percent
spoke - to furnish or provide with spokes or bars + speaking
drugman - a man who deals in drugs, an apothecary + drogmall (Bog Latin) - back.
storehouse - a building in which goods are stored
intrance - obs. form of entrance + (notebook 1931): 'ES in a trance' → Trobridge: A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg 307: (of Swedenborg) 'when in a trance condition would sometimes lie in bed for several days without eating'.
layday - one of a certain number of days allowed according to a charter-party for the loading and unloading of cargo + (notebook 1931): 'fond of ladies'.
A.A. - Alcoholics Anonymous (orig. U.S., an association for the mutual support and rehabilitation of alcoholics, founded at Akron, Ohio, in 1935. ); also, a member of this organization + A[nax] A[ndron] (gr) - lord of men + A[ulus] A[gerius] (l) - conventional name of litigant in Roman Law, "John Dee".
shantung - a soft undressed Chinese silk (formerly undyed, since 1907 dyed to any shade of colour).
sooth to say (Archaic phrase) - to tell the truth [(notebook 1931): 'sooth to say,']
guile - insidious cunning, deceit, treachery
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 8: 'set back considerable'
say grace - to say a short prayer either asking a blessing before, or rendering thanks after, a meal.
smily = smiley - smiling; cheerful + (notebook 1931): 'joyful out of his eyes' → Trobridge: A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg 299: (quoting Cuno about Swedenborg's attitude to his approaching death) 'he looked so innocent and so joyful out of his eyes, as I had never seen him look before'.
skyblue - a pure blue colour like that of the sky + (notebook 1931): 'smiling blue eyes' → Trobridge: A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg 298: (of Swedenborg) 'Cuno says again: "When he gazed upon me with his smiling blue eyes, which he always did in conversing with me, it was as if truth itself was speaking from them"'.
pius Aeneas (l) - Aeneas the dutiful: Virgilian formula + alios (l) - others (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
ast - obs. or dial. pa. tense of ask
Herrgott (ger) - Lord God + Gott (ger) - god + (notebook 1931): 'shave & haircut shape of hegoat Schoepfer Herrgott'.
tile - a hat (slang)
tog - to clothe, to dress (occurs first and chiefly as togged: cf. booted, hatted, etc.)
chronicle - a frequent title of newspapers, e.g. The Daily Chronicle, Weekly Chronicle, etc + Chronicles - name of two of the historical books of the Old Testament.
portmanteau - a case or bag for carrying clothing and other necessaries when travelling + Humpty Dumpty is also a character in Alice Through the Looking Glass. He lectures on "portmanteau words" [Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass ch. VI: 'Humpty Dumpty': 'it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word'].
Priam - last king of Troy, character of Homer's, Shakespeare's.
potato wards (Anglo-Irish) - wards won by bribery