jocus (l) - jest, joke + jocubus (l) - joke-nightmare, joke-dream + Jacobus (Low Latin) - James.
Nic (nik) (gael) - daughter, Miss (in Mac names) + nic (Pan-Slavonic) - nothing + not for Joe (Anglo-Irish phrase) - definitely not.
jay - the name of a common European bird, Garrulus glandarius; a showy or flashy woman; one of light character; a stupid or silly person; a simpleton
Attila (406-453) - king of the Huns, ravished eastern Europe and overran Italy. Spared Rome through the Pope's mediation.
Atlantida (Serbian) - Atlantis + Thalatta! Thalatta! (gr) - Sea! Sea! (cry of Xenophon's men when the leading ranks sighted the Black Sea from the hils above Trebizond, on the retreat from Persia).
Goth - one of a Germanic tribe, who, in the third, fourth, and fifth centuries, invaded both the Eastern and Western empires, and founded kingdoms in Italy, France, and Spain.
scourge - a whip, lash + the Scourge of God (= L. flagellum Dei) - a title given by historians to Attila, the leader of the Huns in the 5th century.
visitation - an official visit for inspection or supervision; an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
impluvium - In ancient Roman houses, the square basin situated in the middle of the atrium or hall, which received the rain-water from the compluvium or open space in the roof + impluvium (l) - skylight, opening in roof of Roman house; the square basin beneath that caught rainwater.
Hun - one of an Asiatic race of warlike nomads, who invaded Europe c a.d. 375, and in the middle of the 5th c., under their famous king Attila + hun (Danish) - she.
stands there
mun - man; the mouth + mun (mun) (gael) - urine + moon
in one's naturals - in a purely natural condition, not altered or improved in any way; also, in a perfectly naked state (obs.) + (notebook 1931): 'in his natural' → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 85: 'the spiritual of man has so far passed into his natural, that he does not know what spiritual is'.
obvious - plain and open to the eye or mind + obliuius (l) - forgotten, obsolete + obliare (it) - to forget + oblivious
autoamnesia (gr) - self-forgetfulness
proprium - an attribute essentially belonging to something; essential nature + proprium (l) - personal property + (notebook 1931): 'proprium of angels is evil' → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 114: 'the angels are not angels from their proprium, for the angel's proprium is altogether like the proprium of man, which is evil'.
stockpot - a pot in which stock for soups is boiled and kept + potlood (Dutch) - pencil (literally 'pot-lead').
leaden - to make leaden or dull + Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais II.386: (of corrupt Latin) 'latin de marmite' (French 'pot Latin').
sonse - abundance, plentifulness; prosperity + saucepan - a deep pan with a handle + such and such, so and so.
crake - corncrake; a crow or raven; to utter a harsh grating cry + Greek.
wont - custom, habit
wanton - a lascivious or lewd person
maid - obs. pa. tense and pa. pple. of make (v.)
will to be wise = sin of Adam (notebook 1931) → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 117: 'Adam, when he willed to be wise and to love on his own account, fell from wisdom and love, and was cast out of Paradise'.
thinks from its light loves from his heat ['thinks' not clear] (notebook 1931) → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 92: (of the spiritual world) 'every man as to the interiors of his mind is in that world, in the midst of angels and spirits there; and he thinks from its light, and loves from its heat'.
apo- - away from, off + apo photos (gr) - away from light + It is Apep or Apophis (demon serpent of the heavens) rather than Set who is cast, like Satan, from heaven: "Thrust from the light, apophotorejected".
spoor - to follow a spoor or trail
blink - to move the eyelids, twinkle, peep, wink
wreathe - to twist or coil (something); to form or fashion into a coil or coils. Occas. in fig. context.
in the Word he reads heat they - charity [dash dittoes 'read'] (notebook 1931) → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 83: 'when a man in the Word reads heat and light, then the spirits and angels who are with the man, instead of heat perceive charity, and instead of light faith'.
this world - the present world; the present state or stage of existence, as distinguished from another, esp. a future one + (notebook 1931): 'all angels have been men' → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 114: 'all angels have been men'.
liquesce - to become liquid. Also fig., to merge into + (notebook 1931): 'time = state' → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 104: 'the angels have no times divided into days and years... but there is perpetual light and perpetual spring. Thus instead of times there are states with them'.
pitiless - without pity or compassion, merciless
angelhood - the state or condition of an angel; angelic nature embodied [(notebook 1931): 'angelhood' → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 116: (of an angel) 'if he abuses the principle of reciprocity... he falls down from angelhood'].
stehen (ger) - to stand
befall - to fall out in the course of events
a song of a witch (notebook 1931) + son of a bitch.
totter - the action, or an act, of tottering; an unsteady or shaky movement or gait as of one ready to fall + daughter.
black arse (Slang) - kettle, pot + black art - necromancy, witchcraft, devil summoning.
famish - to starve; to die of starvation, perish from want of food
sorceress - a female sorcerer; a witch + (notebook 1931): 'the devil, a witch & permission of God' → Kramer & Sprenger: Malleus Maleficarum i: (table of contents) 'THE FIRST PART. TREATING OF THE THREE NECESSARY CONCOMITANTS OF WITCHCRAFT WHICH ARE THE DEVIL, A WITCH, AND THE PERMISSION OF ALMIGHTY GOD'.
conjunction - a combination of events or circumstances [(notebook 1931): 'eternal conjunction' → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 170: 'The universal end, the end of all things in creation, is, that there may be an eternal conjunction of the Creator with the created universe'].
overalls - trousers of strong material, worn, with a similar shirt, as an outer garment by travellers, explorers, soldiers, cowboys, etc.
cupere (l) - to desire + [re]cuperatio - a regaining + deceperation - separation, severance + Kramer & Sprenger: Malleus Maleficarum i: (table of contents) 'Question II. If it be in Accordance with the Catholic Faith to maintain that in Order to bring about some Effect of Magic, the Devil must intimately co-operate with the Witch'.
nightshirt - a shirt or loose garment worn by boys or men when in bed
spice - fig. To season, to affect the character or quality of, by means of some addition or modification + spies.
look to the east (notebook 1931) → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 105: 'in every turning of their bodies the angels have the East, and thus the Lord before their faces'.
seethe - fig. To be in a state of inward agitation, turmoil, or 'ferment'. Said of a person in trouble, fever, etc. + sees.
E = S W = N (notebook 1931) → Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 120: (of the spiritual world) 'the determination of the quarters in that world is not, as in the natural world, from the south, but it is from the east'.
wilt - to become limp, to lose strength [Swedenborg: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love paragraph 121: 'Those who are in a higher degree of love dwell in the east, those who are in a lower degree of love in the west; those who are in a higher degree of wisdom in the south, and those who are in a lower degree of wisdom in the north. Hence it is, that in the Word... is meant... by the south, wisdom in light; and by the north, wisdom in shade'].
Mercury - Roman god of merchants, thieves, money, etc., etc., identified with Hermes and Thoth. As Shaun walks the Via Dolorosa backward in III,i ii, he is always illustrating some attribute of backward-walking Mercury-Hermes-Thoth, and, therefore, the naming of the god gives no notion of how he dominates the material. In Ulysses, Mulligan is Mercury, and so is, in part, one of the models for Shaun. Mercury is a planet, a medicine against syphilis, a substance important in alchemy. (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake).
Weisheit (ger) = wijsheid (Dutch) - wisdom + Heide (ger) - heathen + (notebook 1931): 'N = wisdom in shade'.
speck - a small spot of a different colour to that of the material upon which it appears + (notebook 1931): '*V* spots on her gown, evil thoughts' → Trobridge: A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg 199: (of angel maidens as described in Swedenborg's Spiritual Diary) 'When they see spots on their garments, it is a sign that they have had evil thoughts, and that they have done something wrong; these spots cannot be washed out... if they then repent of them, the spots vanish from their garments of themselves'.
wish (Slang) - vulva
imagination + (notebook 1931): 'imogenation' + Imogen - heroine of Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, spied on when undressing.
take off - to remove or do away with + (notebook 1931): 'garment taken away (reproof)'.
make off - to depart or leave a place suddenly, often with a disparaging implication; to hasten or run away
leanly - with a lean body or form, without fat or plumpness
bim bum bam (it) - count out in children's games
gush *J* (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson xvii: (Bywaters) 'was often away at sea for long periods, and during these periods she used to write to him letters of a kind, characterised by Mr. Justice Shearman as "gush," which lovers and friends at a distance love to receive'.
gosh (notebook 1931) → The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Supplemental Nights, vol. IV, 11n: The Story of the Three Sharpers: 'Ghaushah, a Persianism... "Ghaush" is a tree of hard wood whereof musical instruments were made; hence the mod. words "Ghásha" and "Ghawwasha" = he produced a sound, and "Ghaushah" = tumult, quarrel'.
Cherry Ripe (song): 'Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, / Ripe I cry, / Full and fair ones / Come and buy' + {they’re like ripe cherries}
oaf - a half-wit, fool, dolt + enough + (notebook 1931): 'I could shake him an ass, nothing more' → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 178: (letter from Edith Thompson to Bywaters, trial exhibit 20) 'Aubrey - I could shake him - no go - no initiative of his own... oh an ass - nothing more' (of a character in Robert Hichens's novel The Slave).
under a good tutor (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 228: (letter from Edith Thompson to Bywaters) 'I was told I was the vilest tempered girl living & "you used not to be, but you're under a very good tutor"'.
in a big armchair (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 214: (letter from Edith Thompson to Bywaters, trial exhibit 60) 'all Saturday evening I was thinking about you - I was just with you in a big arm chair in front of a great big fire feeling all the time how much I had won'.
lernen (ger) - to learn + Lehnstuhl (ger) - easy-chair + leuningstoel (Dutch) - armchair.
waxen - as if made of wax, soft, yielding + (notebook 1931): 'I am wax in your hands' → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 214: (letter from Edith Thompson to Bywaters, trial exhibit 60) 'It seems like a great welling up of love - of feeling - of inertia, just as if I am wax in your hands - to do with as you will'.
turn up - to find in a book, a set of papers, etc. some passage or document
tantalizing - tormenting by exciting desires which cannot be satisfied + dentelle (fr) - lace.
pages + peaches [065.26]
Book of the Dark (notebook 1931) → Budge: The Book of the Dead + (Finnegans Wake).
look at this passage (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 49: (Cecil Whiteley, counsel for Bywaters, examining Bywaters) 'Look at this passage'.
Galehoult (Italian Galeotto) brought together Lancelot and Guinevere; Paolo and his brother's wife, Francesca, fell in love while reading about this (described in Dante's Inferno V.137: 'Galeotto fu il libro': 'The book was a pander' (Italian literally 'The book was Galleot')) + galeotto (it) - galley-slave, convict + Galileo Galilei + José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916): El Gran Galeoto (a play in which a character is trying to write a play with minimal external action whose principal character would be everybody; Echegaray is referred to in James Joyce's "The Day of the Rabblement").
I know it is difficult (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 54: (Cecil Whiteley, counsel for Bywaters, examining Bywaters) 'Bywaters, I know it is difficult, but I want you to tell us in your own way what your feelings were towards Mrs. Thompson?'
je suis goche (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 227: (letter from Edith Thompson to Bywaters) 'Je suis Goche darlint & disappointed' ['Goche' was apparently a mistranscription of French fâché in Young's "Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson" (but this was unknown to Joyce)].
when you are rough I go dead (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 214: (letter from Edith Thompson to Bywaters, trial exhibit 60) 'Darlingest when you are rough, I go dead - try not to be please'.
turn now to (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 77: (Walter Frampton, counsel for Thompson, examining Thompson) 'Turn now to your letter of 10th February'.
patch - a portion of any surface markedly different in appearance or character from what is around it + page + '...in the "sooty" black of night - it's "blink pitches" must be scrutinized for their constant traces of the absent in the same way that "black patches," in darkness, are spotted on black velvet.' (John Bishop: Joyce's Book of the Dark).
Machiavelli (preferring expediency to morality; practising duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct) + smacchia (it) - (he/she/it) cleans + velluti (it) - velvets.
zut alors! (fr) - (expletive) + zoet (Dutch) - sweet.
ever so (notebook 1931) → Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 175: (letter from Edith Thompson to Bywaters, trial exhibit 20) 'A note from you this morning darlint, it bucked me up ever so'.
spot - to catch sight of; to recognize or detect
monitorologia (l + gr) - the wisdom or science of being a reminder + monitor (l) - a reminder, one who reminds a lawyer of legal points.
headmaster - the principal master of a school, having assistant masters under him
harte = heart
in omnibus moribus et temporibus (l) - in all customs and times
mischief - reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
whilst - while
pupil - contractile aperture in the iris of the eye
heavenliness - the state or quality of being heavenly in origin, nature, or character + (notebook 1931): 'eyes turned to heaven'.
exaspirate - to deprive of an aspirate + exaspiratus (l) - blown-out-upon + aspirated - pronounced with an audible breath (Irish letters).
Blow, James (d. 1759) - he and Patrick O'Neill of Belfast introduced letterpress printing into Ireland, 1696.
provocative - serving to excite appetite or lust. Now limited to sexual contexts.
trumper - a deceiver, impostor; a trumpeter (obs.) + trump cards.
Rohan, Benjamine, Duc de Soubise (1589-1642) - Huguenot leader, soldier + Browne/Nolan (motif).
mocking bird - an American passerine song-bird of the genus Mimus, esp. Mimus polyglottus, characterized by its habit of mimicking the notes of other birds + Listen to the Mocking Bird (song).
aye - ever, always, continually
Sodom + sodomy (homosexuality) [252.01-.02]
Gomorrah + Gemurmel (ger) - murmuring.