novene - anglicized form of novena (a devotion consisting of special prayers or services on nine successive days) + no one
loreto - congregation of religious women founded near Dublin in 1822.
Clotho (l) - "Spinster, Weaver": one of the three Moirai, the Fates goddess (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
fie - an exclamation expressing, in early use, disgust or indignant reproach. No longer current in dignified language; said to children to excite shame for some unbecoming action, and hence often used to express the humorous pretence of feeling 'shocked'.
covey - to hatch (obs.)
bash - to destroy the confidence or self-possession of; to daunt, dismay; to disconcert, put out of countenance, abash + bean-sidhe (banshi) (gael) = banshee - fairy-woman + banish
dread - extreme fear; deep awe or reverence; apprehension or anxiety as to future events
Alitta - Babylonian mother goddess
in the mean time - during or within the time which intervenes between one specified period or event and another
blas (blos) (gael) - taste, flavor + bloss (ger) - naked, bare; only + orange blossom - the white fragrant blossom of the orange-tree. Worn by brides in wreaths, trimmings, etc., or carried in bouquets at the marriage ceremony + place as arranged.
audience - an assembly of listeners, an auditory + ST AUDOEN'S CHURCH - Dublin's 2 churches of this name are neighbors in High Street + audiens (l) - hearer, auditor; pupil.
rosan (rosan) (gael) - shrubbery
chapelry - a chapel with its precinct and its accessory buildings
Diamant (German) = diamant (Dutch) - diamond
black fast - Eccl., a fast which includes abstinence from milk and eggs, most severe fast + breakfast + Blick (ger) - look, glance + fest (ger) - steadily.
mine + Minne (ger) = minne (Dutch) - love.
hos - obs. form of hoarse + house
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-47) - German composer (Wedding March) + min (Dutch) - love + Sinn (ger) - sense.
bemind (Dutch) - beloved + beminnen (Dutch) - to love.
kyrielle (French) - form of poetry (little couplets ending in same word); litany; rigmarole + Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison (Greek: ' Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy upon us, Lord have mercy upon us'; from the Mass).
elation - elevation of spirits (in neutral or good sense); buoyancy, joyousness, pleasurable self-satisfaction
sanctus sanctus sanctus (l) - holy holy holy (Mass prayer)
languished - reduced to languor, that is made or has become languid + Anguish - father of Isolde.
hister - a beetle of the genus so named of the family Histeridæ + hister (etr) - stage-player, actor + sister
Esther (names of Stella and Vanessa)
luz (Portuguese) - light + Luke.
lisp - the action or an act of lisping; a sound resembling a lisp, e.g. the rippling of water, the rustle of leaves + lips
TOLKA - Gael. Tolca (tulke): Flood, Torrent; The little river of North Dublin, flowing through Glasnevin and Drumcondra to Dublin Bay, through the former sloblands of Fairview; site of battle of Clontarf, 1014.
fay - one of a class of supernatural beings of diminutive size, in popular belief supposed to possess magical powers and to have great influence for good or evil over the affairs of man; fey, doomed to die (obs) + fay (Obsolete) - fey, doomed to die + fading.
eusebia (gr) - fear of god + eu sabia (Portuguese) - I knew + Eusebian - pertaining to Eusebius of Cæsarea, or the historical works written by him. Eusebian Canons: an arrangement of the contents of the four Gospels into ten classes of passages, according as the passages occur in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John alone, or in any one of the nine possible combinations of two or three out of the four + Palladino, Eusapia - spinitualist medium, fl. 1905-7 + {this gives rise to numerous unanswered questions about the encounter - ending in a demand to hear *S*}
fais dodo (fr) - go to sleep (baby-talk) + fais-le (fr) - do it! + elle tait tout (fr) - she is silent about all.
clou - that which holds the attention; the chief attraction, point of greatest interest, or central idea + clou (fr) - nail, stud.
hystérique (fr) - hysterical + history.
this + dad (Hebrew) - tit + "the" at the end of FW.
lit. Ding an sich (ger) - the thing in itself, distinct from perceived thing (Kant)
prose poem - a prose work having the style or character of a poem
suora (it) - nun, sister
+ Joyce's note: 'Is there
a poem of / sister to sister'
→
Alice - the name of the heroine of two books by 'Lewis Carroll' (C. L. Dodgson, 1832-98), 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) and 'Through the Looking-Glass' (1871), used allusively with reference to these books, their heroine or her fantastic adventures + delicious.
alluring - attracting or enticing to a course of action; appealing to the desires; tempting, seductive
jumbo - a big clumsy person, animal, or thing; popularized, esp., as the individual name of an elephant, famous for its size, in the London Zoological Gardens, subsequently sold in Feb. 1882 to Barnum + 'Jumbo said to Alice: "I love you".' (song)
ding dong - a ringing sound
Sechseläuten - Zurich spring festival + Pingpong, the bell for Sechseläuten, and concepit de Saint-Esprit (motif).
presentacion (sp) - show, exhibition + Presentation of Blessed Virgin Mary as a child.
Annunciation (to Blessed Virgin Mary by Gabriel) + nuptials.
second thoughts - ideas occurring subsequently; later and maturer consideration (usu. in phr. on or upon second thoughts); So first thoughts.
immaculation - immaculate (spotlessly clean or neat) condition + Immaculate Conception + immolation.
appall - to cause the heart of (anyone) to sink; to dismay, shock, terrify + Matthew 7:7, Luke 11:9: 'Knock and it shall be opened unto you' + appear (apparition of Blessed Virgin Mary at Knock, County Mayo, 1879).
Shem/Shaun (motif)
Schein (ger) - light, shine; appearance + Erscheinung (ger) - apparition, phenomenon (Kant).
cluse = close + Vaucluse, where Petrarch lived.
voile (fr) - veil + voli je (Serbian) - love her.
hold + hilde (Danish) - ensnare.
hand + kindly.
melodious + Cyril and Methodius are the principal saints of the Eastern church.
Olga the Slav - Eastern saint + Anglo
iris (gr, l) - goddess of the rainbow; the rainbow + Irish
val - wall (obs.) + Wales
barlady - By our Lady!; contraction of by our Lady, used as an oath, form of adjuration, or expletive + bar lady
euphemiously - by way of euphemism (Rhet. That figure of speech which consists in the substitution of a word or expression of comparatively favourable implication or less unpleasant associations, instead of the harsher or more offensive one that would more precisely designate what is intended) + euphêmia (gr) - use of auspicious language; praise.
ambi- - both + ambidualis (l) - around about two + FDV: — One moment. How's that at all at all? Is she by herself? Is this young lady by herself? this young lady what exactly is she doing with herself?
apparition - appearence, semblance; an appearance, especially of a remarkable or unexpected kind; a phenomenon
consuelo (sp) - comfort + George Sand: Consuela + Angelus: 'et concepit de Spiritu Sancto' (l) - 'and she conceived of the Holy Ghost'.
Sonia - heroine of Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment
dang - damn, damned; a ringing sound
[hoi] tettara logioi (gr) - the four narrators + tetralogia (gr) - group of four (plays, dialogues, etc.)
this and that - one thing (or person) and another + {Matthew mimics Mark's accent}
dese - obs. form of dais (a raised table in a hall, at which distinguished persons sat at feasts, etc.; the high table) + these
crackle - to emit a rapid succession of slight cracks; to crack (jokes) in a small way (nonce-use.)
out of turn - not at the proper time, out of the correct order
mister + ster (Dutch) - star + FDV: — You're talking out of yer turn my bouncer. Here. How many females was it there? Was there more than Answer my queskins. Did the food inspector fine more than 16% of water in his purity flower? [[I am here to know] Have the two generals [who have been [getting nosemoney cheap] stirring up public opinion with their legs, have they] their service books in order and duly signed when leaving discharged from their last situation? How did Magrath & the man charging him come into lawful awful position of the barrel of wash? Where were the doughboys, three in number, proceeding directing their steps [without their liason officer with trenchcoats open & their hands in their pockets V military rules] when confronted with his obstruction? [Is it a fact that this man is the owner of a hengster's circus & [has made vehement] complained complaints to the police [barracks [& applying for a conditional order of certiorari]] that he has been molested by offers of vacancies [[inside of] this present week] from females female boys in this city neighing after him, once since once they saw his [lifesize] picture in the sheets?]] Where's that auxiliary poleshman that saw the whole occurrence hoodlum. Sackerson!
firefly - a lampyrid or elaterid insect which has the property of emitting phosphorescent light
RADIO EREANN - The 1st public radio broadcast from the Republic of Ireland was on 1 Jan 1926. The call sign of the new service was 2RN - chosen, as resembling the final words of "Come Back to Erin." The main transmitting station was later built 2 miles East of Athlone. In Paris in the 1930's, Joyce spent a good deal of time listening to "Radio Athlone."
longhorn - a breed of beef cattle, orig. English, now common in the U.S., raised especially in the south-western states; a long horned animal
Connacht - province in Ireland + The proverb "Cows in Connacht have long horns" means that stories about faraway things are exaggerated + Nacht (German) = nacht (Dutch) - night.
grab - to grasp or seize suddenly and eagerly; hence, to appropriate to oneself in a rapacious or unscrupulous manner
shire - in Old English times, an administrative district, consisting of a number of smaller districts ('hundreds' or 'wapentakes'), united for purposes of local government, and ruled jointly by an ealdorman and a sheriff, who presided in the shire-moot. Under Norman rule, the division of England into shires was continued, the AF. counté, Anglo-Latin comitatus, being adopted as the equivalent of the English term. At the present day shire is rare in official use, but is current as a literary synonym for county + the lion's share - the largest or principal portion.
general submission of Irish Lords to English Crown in 1542
border - to form a border or boundary to + (border between Northern Ireland and Irish Republic).
chatty - given to chat or light easy talk
Leinster - province in east Ireland
go to the wall - to suffer ruin; to give way, succumb in a conflict or struggle; to fail in business + Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies: song: The Minstrel Boy: 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone' [air: The Moreen].
moreen - a stout woollen or woollen and cotton material either plain or watered, used for curtains, etc. + Moirin (morin) (gael) - diminutive of Mor (fem. personal name: "sun"; name of typical peasant woman).
a stoirin (a storin) (gael) = astoreen (Anglo-Irish) = a stórín (Irish) - my little treasure (endearment) + more in store.
Mumha[n] (mun) (gael) - S. province; anglic. Munster.
Connachta (kunukhte) (gael) - Progeny of Conn, W. province; anglic. Connacht, Connaught.
tyke - a dog; usually in depreciation or contempt, a low-bred or coarse dog, a cur, a mongrel; a low-bred, lazy, mean, surly, or ill-mannered fellow
moke - a donkey; a stupid fellow, a dolt
diggings - lodgings, quarters
nimmer - a pilferer, a petty stealer, a thief + nimmer (ger) - never + Document no. 1 - The Treaty (term used by De Valera's supporters).
Matthew 19:30: 'the last shall be first'
trump - to deceive, cheat; Cards. To play a trump; to beat, to 'cap'.
lasting - a durable kind of cloth; continuance, duration, permanence; abuse, blame, reproach
railchair - steel or cast-iron supports for rails. They may be screwed or bolted to wooden railroad ties or cast as integral parts of concrete track supports.
foxy - fox-like: esp. crafty, cunning + SDV: Here. How many females was it there? Was there more than Answer my queskins.
SCULLABOGUE HOUSE - At foot of Carrickbyrne, County Wexford. Scealbog, Ir. "piece of kindling." In the 1798 rebellion, 35 men were massacred at Scullabogue by the insurgents and their 100 women and children were burned alive when the barn in which they were imprisoned was set on fire after the defeat of the insurgents in the battle of New Ross.
as much cheek as wd boil a whole pot of cabbage (notebook 1924) → Connacht Tribune 24 May 1924, 7/4: 'The Open Forum': (a letter to the editor, signed 'Ned O' The Hill', complaining of tenants claiming absurd conditions in purchasing their place of residence) 'As much cheek as would boil a whole pot of cabbage'.