Sebasteion (gr) - temple of Sebastos (Augustus) + (notebook 1930): 'Sebastion from the Rivera in januarry' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 356b: 'The discovery of the Bay of Rio de Janeiro is attributed... to André Gonçalves, who entered its waters on the 1st of January 1502, and believed that it was the mouth of a great river, hence the name Rio de Janeiro (River of January)... The first settlement in the bay was made by an expedition of French Huguenots... In 1560 their fort was captured and destroyed by a Portuguese expedition... and in 1567 another expedition... again destroyed the French settlements... The victory was won on the 20th of January, the feast-day of St Sebastian the Martyr, who became the patron saint of the new settlement and gave it his name — Sāo Sebastiāo do Rio de Janeiro'.
not all there - lacking common sense
Fernsprecher (ger) - telephone + (notebook 1924): 'fernsprecher' → Gallois: La Poste et les Moyens de Communication 368: 'Telephone, which comes from two Greek words: têlê, far; phônê, voice. The Germans call it Fernsprecher, which means talking at a distance, which is absolutely the same thing'.
messuage - obs. form of message
departed + dead.
butte - a hillock or rising ground + butte (fr) - hill.
sceptic - Philos. One who, like Pyrrho and his followers in Greek antiquity, doubts the possibility of real knowledge of any kind; one who doubts the validity of what claims to be knowledge in some particular department of inquiry (e.g. metaphysics, theology, natural science, etc.)
psychics - the science of psychical or mental phenomena; psychology; psychical research
Miracle Wheat (notebook 1930) → Confusion of Tongues 69: [Russellism] Then there was the scandal of "Miracle Wheat". Over articles published in connection with this wheat, [Russell] sued the Brooklyn Eagle [...] The charge made by the Eagle was that the Pastor sold ordinary wheat as "Miracle Wheat".
Soul Surgery (notebook 1930) → Confusion of Tongues 91: [Buchmanism] In his handbook, Soul Surgery, [Frank N.D. Buchman] warns his followers to beware lest any man be a wolf in sheep's clothing: Take nothing for granted. No matter how respectable a man may seem, be he clergyman, or vestryman, or Y.M.C.A. secretary, he may still stand in need of your moral surgery.
Quimby, Phineas P. (1808-86) - mental healer of Portland, Maine, from whom, some say, Mrs Eddy borrowed most of Christian Science + (notebook 1930): 'Phineas Parkcurst Quimby' ('Parkcurst' is uncancelled and is interpolated into the entry, replacing a cancelled 'P.') → Confusion of Tongues 5: New Thought, fathered by the gentle Phineas P. Quimby, lay in its swaddling clothes and had only to await the growth of active dissension in the Christian Science ranks before it rose, girded its loins, and stood forth as one of our most virile religious sons.
indigestion - incapacity of or difficulty in digesting food
tonguer - an utterer, a speaker + Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues + TOWER OF BABEL - Gen 11: After the flood, the men who migrated to the east built in the plain of Shinar a city "and a tower with its top in the heavens." But God confused their language; therefore the city was called Babel (babal, Heb. "confound").
Mass Bubble Bauble (notebook 1930) → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 286: (of the mass in the Liberal Catholic Church) 'the liturgy of the Liberal church... is able... to erect a bulbous form of rare beauty and texture, taking the shape of an immense super-cathedral... the bubble. This edifice - a thin vaporous and variously coloured affair which first encompasses then transcends the church building - is compounded of matter belonging to the various Theosophical planes - mental, astral, and etheric' + Cromwell: 'Take away these baubles'.
it is always the way with (him) - (he) always acts so
culo aperto (it) - open arse + (notebook 1924): 'O felix culpa!'
ring - to summon (a person) by ringing a bell; spec. to call (someone) by telephone
ye - you
staple - paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together; (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
bonze - a term applied by Europeans to the Buddhist clergy of Japan, and sometimes of China, and adjacent countries + bong! + (notebook 1930): 'bonze' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. I: (of knowledge) 'The vast acquirements of the new governor were the theme of marvel among the simple burghers of New Amsterdam; he figured about the place as learned a man as a Bonze at Pekin, who has mastered one-half of the Chinese alphabet; and was unanimously pronounced a "universal genius!"'
ould - representation of an Ir. pronunciation of old + 'Auld Reekie' - traditional nickname for Edinburgh.
bally - a euphemism for bloody, used as a vague intensive of general application; 'jolly', 'confounded' + baile (bolye) (gael) - town, homestead; anglic. Bally-.
Crom-ghlinn (krumlin) (gael) - Curved Valley; S. Dublin district; anglic. Crumlin + Kremlin.
arroundisement (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 809d: 'Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements'.
a Dublin bye-law of 1533: 'within the stremmis and libertys graunted to the sayde cyttye'
Sechseläuten - Zurich spring festival (involves bells ringing) + eleaô (gr) - to have pity + eleutheria (gr) - freedom.
bam - a dull resounding noise; an interjection imitating the sound of a hard blow
deplore - to weep for, bewail, lament; to grieve over, regret deeply
really + truly + Joyce's note: 'ru ruely' → rue - to affect with sorrow; to distress, grieve + rue (fr) - street.
Moncrieff, Algernon - young man in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest + mon (fr) - my + grief.
hone - a whetstone used for giving a fine edge to cutting tools, esp. razors; a swelling or tumour + ochone (Anglo-Irish) = ochon! (ukhon) (gael) - alas!
guester - one who makes a guest of another; an entertainer, host (rare) + gestern (ger) - yesterday.
nobility - the body of persons forming the noble class in any country or state + Nobel Prize.
whiles - Preceded by a demonstrative adj., indefinite article, or other qualifying word, forming advb. phrases: e.g. that whiles, at or during that time; long whiles, for a long while, etc. (obs.)
bronchitic - affected with bronchitis + Joyce's note: 'Bronx' → The Bronx, New York City.
acher - he who, or that which, aches + Akershus - promontory extending into Oslo Harbour, containing the former royal palace and fortress + Acheron (gr) - "Stream of woe": river of the netherworld + (poor-house).
haute (fr) - high, tall + huit reflets (fr) - top hat.
toff - a person of superior social status and often notably stylish and fashionable
hoyt = hoit - a spoilt child, a simpleton, an awkward silly girl, a hoyden + top hat - a man's silk or beaver hat with high cylindrical crown; a tall or high hat + højt (Danish) - high + Hoyte - Lord Mayor of Dublin.
formed - clearly defined, fully developed
reflection - a thought or idea occurring to, or occupying, the mind
stick + Stock im Eisen is an ancient tree stump on the Graben (main thoroughfare and shopping street in Vienna), said to be the surviving remnant of the holy grove around which ancient Vienna (Vindominia) grew + Stock (ger) - stick.
Eisen (ger) - iron
prop - a stick, rod, pole, or other rigid support, used to sustain an incumbent weight; leg (Slang)
hosier - one who makes or deals in hose (stockings and socks) and frame-knitted or woven underclothing generally
THE ROYAL LEG - 18th-century shop for stockings, according to Peter's Sketches of Old Dublin + (notebook 1930): 'Royal Leg (hosier)' → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 198: (of 18th century Dublin) 'the Royal Leg and the Royal Stocking were rivals for the sale of hosiery'.
porta magna (l) - great gate + portus magnus (l) - great port + puerto (sp) - port + puros magnos (sp) - large cigars.
dym (Pan-Slavonic) = dam (Russian) = dim (Serbian) - smoke
bock - vomit, belch; book; a strong dark-coloured variety of German beer + Bock (ger) - goat + bock (fr) - enema + boccada (sp) - mouthful.
husband - to act the part of a husband to; to become the husband of, to marry
Vereker - Lord Mayor of Dublin + very carefully
cigare (fr) - cigar
divine + duvan (Serbian) - tobacco + divan (Serbian) - beautiful.
reddern - to make red, to impart a red colour to (a substance or thing); to become red (in the face) with shame, rage, etc. + redden (Anglo-Irish) - to light (a fire or pipe).
vesta - a kind of wax match; Mythol. A Roman female divinity, the daughter of Saturn, goddess of the hearth and household.
naught - nothing, nought; wickedness, moral wrong, mischief + (notebook 1930): 'he lights it with his vestas but 'tis nought'.
nepos (l) - a nephew + nephos (gr) - cloud, mass of clouds.
nebula (l) = Nebel (German) - mist, vapor, fog, smoke
mest - obs. ff. most + mest (Dutch) - dung, manure.
incensed - inflamed with wrath, made angry, enraged; lit. Set on fire, kindled.
befog - to envelope in fog; fig. to obscure, confuse
thereof - of that, of it, therefrom
stein - an earthenware mug, esp. for beer, commonly holding about a pint + Stein (ger) - stone + Gladstone (Slang) - cheap red wine + William Gladstone - leader of the Liberal Party in Victorian England.
Zober (ger) - tub + sauber (ger) - clean (said of wine) + sober
best beer
Oscarshall - a "pleasure palace" in the Bygdoy section, Oslo, built 1847-52 by King Oscar of Norway and Sweden + Oscar (usker) (gael) - Champion; son of Oisin, grandson of Fionn Mac Cumhail.
buen retiro - a resting place or retreat + buen retiro (sp) - 'good retreat' + Buen Retiro - park in Madrid.
Boyce - Lord Mayor of Dublin + William Boyce - English composer and chorister + boy's voice.
flattish - somewhat flat + flutish.
scarlet - a brilliant vivid red colour, inclining to orange; official or ceremonial costume of scarlet, as the uniform of a soldier
peppered - sprinkled or seasoned with pepper; sprinkled with small dots like grains of pepper; pelted with shot, etc.
salsedine (it) - saltiness
bycause - obs. ff. because
presence + sent to prison (Wilde).
whit - a word expressing a shrill abrupt sound, as of a bird's chirp, a bullet striking something hard, etc.; also as v. + wit - to be aware of, to know.
wel = well + wel (Cornish) - better + Whitwell - Lord Mayor of Dublin + ik miet et well (Dutch) - I know it well.
depressed + depraved + Oscar Wilde: De Profundis.
second-stor(e)y man - N. Amer. Criminals' slang, a cat-burglar (a burglar who enters by extraordinarily skilful feats of climbing) + (notebook 1930): '2 stories' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 350a: 'the Government Printing Office (twelve storeys — one of the few tall office-buildings in the city)'.
moed (Dutch) - courage
cannot + Kane - Lord Mayor of Dublin + Connacht.
yeoman - a volunteer cavalry force in the British army, originally formed at the time of the French revolution, and consisting chiefly of men of the yeomanry class or status; a commoner or countryman of respectable standing, esp. one who cultivates his own land + yamen (Chinese) - administrative offices.
I flatter myself (Joyce's note) → Peter: Dublin Fragments, Social and Historic 30: (quoting from an 18th century invitation to a public ball) 'Reilly would gladly provide Tea and Coffee, but flatters himself the Omission of them will be kindly excused, on Account of the Difficulty of providing Cups, &c.'
lax - salmon + lex (l) - law.
second division - one of the three grades of imprisonment
broadcloth - a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish
recorder - Formerly, a certain magistrate or judge having criminal and civil jurisdiction in a city or borough. Now, in England and Wales, a barrister or solicitor appointed as a part-time judge presiding esp. over certain Crown Courts. The Recorder was originally a person with legal knowledge appointed by the mayor and aldermen to 'record' or keep in mind the proceedings of their courts and the customs of the city, his oral statement of these being taken as the highest evidence of fact. The Recorder of London, to whom most of the early evidence refers, is still appointed by the court of aldermen; elsewhere the appointment is made by the crown, the duties of the office being regulated by the Municipal Corporations Act of 5 and 6 William IV and subsequent enactments.
Things of Things (notebook 1930) → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 159: 'Scandinavian Things or Tings' (i.e. parliaments) + king of all kings.
When London became a municipality or "commune" in 1191 AD, it was governed by a mayor and 12 echevins or "skivini" who formed the "Court of Skivini" + (notebook 1930): 'Court of Skivini' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 966b: (of the government of the Commune of London in the late 12th century and the early 13th century) 'the government of the city was in the hands of a mayor and twelve échevins (skivini)... alii probi homines were associated with the mayor and échevins to form a body of twenty-four... the Court of Skivini and alii probi homines... was the germ of the Common Council'.
marchant = merchant + MERCHANT'S QUAY - South side of Lifféy. Site of Adam and Eve's Church + (notebook 1930): 'grey merchant " marchant' (double inverted commas ditto 'grey') → Hardiman: The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway 209: (quoting from a 16th century by-law) 'No craftesman, or, as it were, grey merchaunt, go abroad to buy or sell... any kind of merchaundize, cattell or other things, that shall not be of ther owne faquiltie'.
antient = ancient - which existed in, or belonged to, times long past, or early in the world's history.
credible - worthy of belief or confidence; trustworthy, reliable + (notebook 1930): 'antient old credibel persons' → Hardiman: The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway 207: (quoting from 16th century judicial proceedings) 'the mayor, &c. calling before them auncient old credibel persons' (as witnesses).
jonah - jinx; the name of a Hebrew prophet, the subject of the Book of Jonah
Whalley, Dr John (b. 1653) - Dublin quack, astrologer, maker of almanacks. In trouble, he fled to England, later returned to Dublin + Jonah and the Whale.
Preserved Fish Habakkuk Nutter Returned Strong Zerubabbel Fisk Determined Cock (notebook 1930) → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. VI: 'a host of Yankee warriors, headed by Preserved Fish, and Habakkuk Nutter, and Return Strong, and Zerubbabel Fisk, and Determined Cock!'
jurat - a person who performs some duty on oath; spec. one sworn to give information about the crimes committed in his neighbourhood, and in other ways to assist the administration of justice; a juror (Obs. exc. Hist.)
rhyme - to put (one's thoughts) into riming form + oremus (l) - let us pray.
haar - a wet mist or fog; esp. applied on the east coast of England and Scotland, from Lincolnshire northwards, to a cold sea-fog + Haar (ger) = haar (Dutch) - hair + our
faghar (fager) (gael) - favor + Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father, Which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done'.
Harrods - London department store
navn (Danish) - name.
kingdom + meine Kinder (ger) - my children.
Wohl (ger) - good, happiness + will + mein Wohl (ger) - my health, well-being.
letter + laughter + There is nothing like leather (proverb) + leut (Dutch) - fun + Luther, Martin (1483-1546) - German religious reformer + eleutheria (gr) - freedom.
shee = she + shee (Anglo-Irish) - fairy + shee (Irish Pronunciation) - see + O'Shea.