chistay (Russian) - pure
Roderick (Joyce's note) → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1166: 'Roderic O'Connor, king of Ireland, honourably received and entertained by the people of Dublin, who do him homage, and receive from him a present of 4,000 oxen'.
monolith - a single block of stone, esp. one of notable size, shaped into a pillar or monument
An 1810 Bible (known as the Ears to Ear Bible) gave for Mark 4:9: 'He that hath ears to ear' instead of 'He that hath ears to hear'.
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-87) - American preacher who provided antislavery forces with guns, known as "Beecher's Bibles" + Breeches Bible - the Geneva Bible of 1560, so called because it substitutes 'breeches' for 'aprons' in Genesis 3:7.
Manhattan - one of the boroughs of New York City (others are: Bronx, Brooklin, Queens and Richmond) + Jews take oath with hat on.
unclothed - not covered with clothes; bare, naked
longstone = menhir - a tall upright monumental stone, of varying antiquity, found in various parts of Europe, and also in Africa and Asia + The Long Stone - pillar in Dublin marking place where the Danes landed.
erection + Erechtheion (gr) - Temple of Erechtheus ("Breaker") at Athens.
menhir - tall upright monumental stone + mijnheer (Dutch) - gentleman, Mr, sir.
an Ear Nerwicker (notebook 1924) → O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages 65: 'a flood broke forth which submerged Eocha and his people, forming the great lake, which from him was called Loch n'Eocha, or Lough Neagh'.
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) - English poet
prime - fig. To charge, fill, or fully furnish (a person) beforehand with information which he may subsequently give forth or otherwise use.
daunt - to abate the courage of, discourage; to put in awe, abash + Dante
gouty - swollen or bulging, so as to be out of shape or disproportioned; distorted with swellings or protuberances + Goethe
shopkeeper - one who carries on business in a shop + Napoleon called the English 'nation of shopkeepers' + Shakespeare
A.G. = Aktien-Gesellschaft (ger) - joint stock company
generalty - the general body; people in general; the majority
admires + Moyers - Lord Mayor of Dublin.
like as (notebook 1930) → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. II: 'Like as a war-worn charger, grazing in peaceful plains, starts at a strain of martial music, pricks up his ears, and snorts, and paws, and kindles at the noise, so did the heroic Peter joy to hear the clangor of the trumpet'.
palmer - a pilgrim who had returned from the Holy Land, in sign of which he carried a palm-branch or palm-leaf; also, an itinerant monk who travelled from shrine to shrine, under a perpetual vow of poverty.
homester = homebody - one whose life centers around the home and its activities, stay-at-home.
lamentably - pitiably, deplorably; hence (with weakened meaning), woefully, grievously
Shinto - the native religious system of Japan, the central belief of which is that the mikado is the direct descendant of the sun-goddess and that implicit obedience is due to him + Tod (ger) - death.
spitfire - that spits fire; fire-spitting; fig. irascible, displaying anger or hot temper + Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, Fire, Plague, War.
paraplegia - paralysis of the lower limbs and a part or the whole of the trunk, resulting from an affection of some part of the spinal cord + perplagatus (l) - (1) thoroughly struck; (2) thoroughly netted, thoroughly tangled + perplexed.
Crom Cruach (krum krukh) (gael) - Gory Crouching; anc. idol overthrown by Patrick + Kram (ger) - junk + Krim-Krieg (ger) - Crimean War.
do its bit do my bits (notebook 1930) → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 288: (of the Liberal Catholic Church) 'Each large division of the service makes its contribution toward the completed edifice; one part lays the foundation, another... comes along and does its bit' + dead best.
prudentials - matters that fall within the scope or province of prudence + prudential - prudent maxim + credentials.
coalmines + goldmines + Stollen (ger) - tunnel (mining).
Spanien (ger) - Spain
ogsaa (Danish) - also.
abhor - fig. To regard with horror, extreme repugnance or disgust; to hate utterly, loathe, abominate.
vastly - immensely; to an extent or degree not readily grasped or estimated
nether - lower, under
sundry - miscellaneous unspecified artifacts + Sunday closing (of shops).
The amusing part is (notebook 1924)
hotelmen = pl. of hotelman - hotelkeeper
drowner - one who drowns, or who suffers drowning
Ath Cliath (aklie) (gael) - Hurdle Ford; (Dublin) + (notebook 1930): 'Ath Cleeath' → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 7: 'in 945 Blacaire once more retook Dublin, only to be defeated and slain the following year by Congalac in the great battle of Ath Cliath'.
Irland (ger) - Ireland + irr (ger) - confused, wrong.
shame - to cause to be ashamed + (notebook 1930): 'Over the deep water Dublin to seek Again Ireland Shamed in mind' ('Dublin to seek' replaces a cancelled 'Ireland to seek') → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 70: (of Aulaf, King of Dublin) 'Aulaf was defeated in the terrific struggle at Brunanburg, and fled "O'er the deep water Dublin to seek Again Ireland Shamed in mind"' (quoting from a translation of the Old English poem 'The Battle of Brunanburg').
plunge - a dive, dip
rudder - steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel + in three (or two) shakes of a sheep's (or lamb's) tail - Used as the type of instantaneous action.
vance - variant of vaunce (to advance, in various senses) + Vance - Lord Mayor of Dublin + Imperial Standard hoisted (notebook 1930) → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1801: 'Imperial standard hoisted on Dublin Castle'.
wapenrecht (Dutch) - rule of physical force, club-law (literally 'weaponright') + (notebook 1930): 'wappenrecht' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. X: 'Killian Van Rensellaer's taking possession of Bearn Island by wapen recht'.
Platz (ger) - place + Residenz-Platz (ger) - capital square.
Residenz (ger) - residence + meine Residenz (ger) - my residence, my mansion.
bourd - an idle tale, a joke; jesting, raillery, joking, merriment; Obs. Board (daily meals provided in a lodging or boarding-house according to stipulation) + (notebook 1930): 'board' → The Encyclopędia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 351d: 'a new government for the entire District, consisting of a governor, a secretary, a board of public works, a board of health and a council'.
burgage - a tenure whereby lands or tenements in cities and towns were held of the king or other lord, for a certain yearly rent + boer en burger (Dutch) - farmer and citizen + board and lodging.
starry - Of the sky, night, etc.: Full of stars, spangled or lit up with stars + Starémesto - Old Town, Prague.
Bristol - a city of England upon the Wiltshire or Lower Avon, famous since early times for its maritime trade and manufactures, and giving its name to various commercial and natural products.
operated (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopędia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 351d: 'the factories in the District which were operated under private ownership'.
ran a selection (notebook 1923)
tholl - obs. erron. f. toll + Tholsel, Dublin (old exchange building; Lord Mayor's House until the beginning of the 19th century).
straight - conventional, respectable, socially acceptable; Of conduct: Free from crookedness, frank, honest + Menai Strait + Arthur Morrison: Tales of Mean Streets, 1894 (scattered tales and sketches of low life in London; Joyce had this book in Trieste) + man in the street.
average + Bridge of Evora, Howth.
Fimmel (ger) - sledge-hammer; craze + female
commune = common + (notebook 1930): 'commune' → The Encyclopędia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 816b: 'the communes of 1793 and 1871'.
soccage - tenure of lands by determinate services other than knight service + cottage.
plotlet (notebook 1930)
The specialty of Dublin weavers, centered in the Liberties, was poplin, a fabric of silk and wool woven so that only the silk shows on the surface + (notebook 1930): 'Poplin' → The Encyclopędia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 621b: 'Dublin poplins... keep their reputation'.
afore - Of place: In front, in advance; in or into the fore-part. Still used in naut. lang. and in dialects; Of time: In time preceding or previous; previously, before.
Fort Dunlop - the latest Dunlop car tyre model of the late 1920s (advertised in Irish Statesman, which Joyce read, from 1928) + Dunlop car tyre works at Fort Dunlop, near Birmingham.
Serbonian bog - Milton's name for Lake Serbonis in Lower Egypt, a marshy tract (now dry) covered with shifting sand, proverbial for hopeless inextricability (supposed to have swallowed up whole armies) + (notebook 1930): 'a mudhole almost Equal to the great serbonian bog' → The Encyclopędia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 352b: 'For many years such characterizations as... "A Mudhole almost Equal to the Great Serbonian Bog" were common'.
city of magnificent distances (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopędia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 352b: 'For many years such characterizations as... "City of Magnificent Distances"... were common'.
good & walled (notebook 1930) → W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 231: 'In 1535... Newcastle maintained a castle and garrison, and was reckoned among the "good and walled towns" of the county'.
wall about (notebook 1930) → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. IV: 'the rich winding cove of the Wallabout' + Wallabout Bay, New York City.
talus - spec. in Fortification, the sloping side of a wall or earthwork, which gradually increases in thickness from above downwards (PICTURE).
counterscarp - Fortif. The outer wall or slope of the ditch, which supports the covered way; sometimes extended to include the covered way and glacis (PICTURE) + (notebook 1930): 'talus & counterskarp counterskarp (place de la Contrecarppe)' → The Encyclopędia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 804c: 'Since 1840 Paris has been completely surrounded by a wall... which, with its talus, is encircled by a broad and deep ditch... a deep dry ditch (escarp, but not counterscarp revetted)'.
pale - a fence made of stakes driven into the ground, or of upright bars or strips nailed to horizontal rails supported by posts [(notebook 1930): 'pale'].
palisade - Mil. A strong pointed wooden stake, of which a number are fixed deeply in the ground in a close row, either vertical or inclined, as a defence (PICTURE) + (notebook 1930): 'palisade' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. VII: (of Peter Stuyvesant) 'He fortified the city, too, with pickets and palisadoes'.
martial - of or pertaining to war or battle
siege - the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack + siegen (ger) - to win, to conquer.
abbot - the head or superior of an abbey + abbatoir or slaughterhouse - facility where animals are killed for consumption as food products.
warre - obs. f. war and ware
blessé (fr) - wounded
slauchter - obs. Sc. form of slaughter
myria- - 'ten thousand'; 'very numerous' + marvelous + Annus Mirabilis (l) - The Year of Wonders (1665-1666): poem by Dryden.
overdreven (Danish) - exaggerated
marken (ger) - to set a boundary + Marken (ger) - postage stamps; borderland, march (especially German die Marken Brandenburg: the Brandenburg Marches [.30]).
sword of
Wenceslaus (1361-1419) - German and Bohemian king (built walls of Prague). St Wenceslaus was a 10th-century Bohemian duke, slain by his brother.
Stock (ger) - staff
According to doubtful tradition, Berlin was founded by Margrave Albert the Bear (d 1170) + brecht (ger) - break.
bern (notebook 1930) → Bern, Switzerland
patroonship - the position of a patroon = patron (obs.) - one who takes under his favour and protection, or lends his influential support + (notebook 1930): 'patroonship oon' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. IX: 'magnificent dreams of foreign conquest and great patroonships in the wilderness' + patroonschap (Dutch) - patronage + (notebook 1930): 'schaap' → schaap (Dutch) - sheep.
Their Royal Highnesses
Urban - 8 popes. Urban I was pope from 222 to 230.
Alfred Lee: Champagne Charlie (19th century music hall song) + Champagne Charlie - nickname of Charles Hardwick, friend of Edward VII + Charlie Chaplin + Charlemagne.
loaved - having a 'loaf' or 'head' + loved.
hated + Henry the Eighth.
tenure - the action or fact of holding a tenement, part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands + (notebook 1930): 'tenenure' + Tir an Iubhair (tir un yur) (gael) - Land of the Yew Tree; S. Dublin suburb; anglic. Terenure.
toil - pl. A struggle, a 'fight' (with difficulties); hence, a spell of severe bodily or mental labour; a laborious task or operation.
domestication - adaptation to intimate association with human beings + SDV: I will say that since my toils of domestication began famine has receded from the land.
skat - a crown tax in the Shetland and Orkney islands for the use of commons + skat (Danish) - taxes, treasure + (notebook 1930): 'skatt' → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 20: 'in one of his viking expeditions Olaf took Dublin, and was made king of it... he "exacted rent (scatt) from the Irish".'
sculd - [Connected with ON. skilja to divide.] a parting (obs. rare.) + skuld (Danish) - debt, guilt.
Flukie of the Ravens - in the Hauksbok: "Floki ... consecrated three ravens which would show him the way [to Iceland]; for at that time no men sailing the high seas had lodestones up in the northern lands" + (notebook 1930): 'Floki of the Ravens Flukey ---' (long dash dittoes 'of the Ravens') → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin lvi: 'Floki... brought with him three ravens. The first being let go came back to the ship, also the second, but the third flew from the prow without returning, and Floki and his company following in the same direction they found the land... he named the island "Iceland"... the land discovered by Raven Floki, "or Floki of the ravens".'
piloteer - one who pilots (a ship); a pilot or steersman
famine - to suffer, or die of, hunger; to starve (obs.)
sweat - fig. Hard work, violent or strenuous exertion, labour, toil (arch.) + in 1528 Dublin visited by a pestilential sickness, called the English sweat (first appeared in Ireland in 1491).
epidemic - an epidemic disease + oppidum (l) - town.
Two-toothed locust worms (notebook 1930) → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 897: 'Ireland visited with a plague of strange worms, having two teeth, which devoured everything green in the land; supposed to have been locusts'.