Moabite - one of the people of Moab, which bordered on the territory of the trans-Jordanic Israelites. In 16-17th c. occas. applied opprobriously to Roman Catholics + Moabit - a Berlin district, including Moabit prison.
abuser de (fr) - to take advantage of, to misuse, to rape (literally 'to abuse of') + (notebook 1924): 'abused of her' → Chateaubriand: Œuvres Choisies Illustrées II.81, Les Martyrs: 'elle ne savait si elle n'était point abusée par quelque fantôme de la nuit, et elle me touchait les mains et les cheveux pour s'assurer de la réalité de mon existence' (French 'she did not know if she had not been deceived by some nocturnal phantom, and she touched my hands and hair to reassure herself of the reality of my existence').
Foxrock (notebook 1930) → Foxrock - village, County Dublin.
accrue - to arise or spring as a natural growth or result
pellmell - promiscuous or indiscriminate mingling; confusion, disorder + (notebook 1930): 'pell mell' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VI, ch. VIII: (of the battle of Fort Christina) 'the Swedes gave way, the Dutch pressed forward; the former took to their heels, the latter hotly pursued. Some entered with them pell mell through the sallyport, others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain'.
deceiver - one who (or that which) deceives; a cheat, impostor + (notebook 1930): 'her deceiver' → Booth: In Darkest England and the Way Out 52: E., neither father nor mother, was taken care of by a grandmother till, at an early age, accounted old enough. Married a soldier; but shortly before the birth of her first child, found that her deceiver had a wife and family in a distant part of the country, and she was soon left friendless and alone. She sought an asylum in the Workhouse for a few weeks' after which she vainly tried to get honest employment. Failing that, and being on the very verge of starvation, she entered a lodging-house in Westminster and "did as other girls."
waif - Law. A piece of property which is found ownerless and which, if unclaimed within a fixed period after due notice given, falls to the lord of the manor; e.g. an article washed up on the seashore, an animal that has strayed; In general use: esp. A person who is without home or friends; one who lives uncared-for or without guidance + wife
endmost - nearest to the end, furthest, most distant (rare.) + and most
heartly - with the heart; earnestly, sincerely; cordially
aver - to assert as a fact; to state positively, affirm
fulvus (l) - brown, tawny colour + Fulvia - first wife of Mark Antony. In Antony and Cleopatra, she is the left-at-home wife (offstage) + fulvia fluvia (l) - blonde river.
iddle woman (Archaic) - gentlewoman
née (fr) - born (feminine)
ensue - fig. To follow the guidance of (a person, etc.); to imitate (an example); to follow (inclination, passion, etc.), conform to (advice, orders).
tilstede (Norwegian) - with others + instead.
fairness - the quality or condition of being fair; beauty; equitableness, fair dealing, honesty + SDV: there might be advantage to ask but she always did did always ensue whatsoever pertained unto fairness
waarom (Dutch) - why + whereon.
fawn on - (of a dog, etc.) to show delight at the presence of, to lavish caresses on, to caress + fawn - intr. To affect a servile fondness; to court favour or notice by an abject demeanour; Const. on, upon (a person, his looks, etc.)
lost + loos (Dutch) - false + Luke 19:10: 'For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost' + Ulysses.9.421: 'Perdita, that which was lost' (Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale based on Fawnia in Greene's Pandosto) + (notebook 1930): 'that which was lost' → Booth: In Darkest England and the Way Out 16: 'It is no better than a ghastly mockery... to call by the name of One who came to seek and to save that which was lost those Churches which in the midst of lost multitudes either sleep in apathy or display a fitful interest in a chasuble'.
wage one's (or the) law - to defend an action by 'wager of law'; In erroneous popular use: to go to law.
undine - a supernatural female being, imagined as inhabiting the water; a nymph + Undine - Greek water sprite, title of a novel (1811) by de la Motte-Fouqué in which Undine, personification of water, marries a human being, and, when set aside for another woman, kills her husband with a kiss + undies - articles of underwear, esp. those of a woman or girl.
lor - a clipped form of lord, used as an interjection and in certain exclamatory phrases
ere - before (in time)
tooraloo - 'goodbye' + tollol - tolerable, pretty good, pretty well, passable.
reached - ? stretched, strained + richest.
Joyce's note: 'ma jalousie' (French my jealousy) → Delafosse: L'âme Nègre 69: 'La mère de ma jalouse, je l'insulte! le père de ma jalouse, je l'insulte! le frère de ma jalouse, je l'insulte! (French 'The mother of my jealous one, I insult her! the father of my jealous one, I insult him! the brother of my jealous one, I insult him!')
yashmak - the double veil concealing the part of the face below the eyes, worn by Muslim women in public + (notebook 1930): 'Maidans ymashked'.
swathed - enveloped in a wrapping or bandage or in clothes draped round the figure
snooded - wearing a snood (an ornamental hairnet or fabric bag worn over the hair at the back of a woman's head) + eyes, mouth, ears and nose covered (5 senses, touch missing).
raft - to go upon or cross (a river) by means of a raft
flume - to build a flume or artificial channel for a water-course; to convey (or bring in) down a flume + flumen (l) - river.
overland - over or across land +(notebook 1924): 'draw boats overland' → Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 36: 'the Irish seem to have imitated the Scandinavian practice of "drawing" or carrying their light vessels over land to the lakes and rivers in the interior of the island'.
From Lachsleap to Liffsloup (notebook 1930)
tide - to carry, as the tide does. Chiefly fig.; to float or drift on the tide; spec. Naut., to navigate a ship by taking advantage of favouring tides, and anchoring when the tide turns + (notebook 1930): 'tide it down' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. X: 'the company's yacht, the Half Moon... was quietly tiding it down the Hudson'.
portreeve - the chief officer of a seaport town + (notebook 1930): 'portreeve' → W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 228: 'a midway stage between Dublin and Naad, Rathcole was for centuries after the English invasion, reckoned a place of considerable importance, ruled by a portreeve or governor' + (notebook 1930): 'Gosfrith the portreeve' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 958d: 'the Conqueror's remarkable charter to William the bishop and Gosfrith the portreeve, supposed to be the elder Geoffrey de Mandeville'.
whimper - Of running water or the wind: To make a continuous plaintive murmur.
creek - a natural stream of water smaller than a river, and often a tributary of a river ("the creek dried up every summer") + (notebook 1930): 'Yantlet Creek' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 949d: 'The extent of the Port of London... for those of the Port Authority... is taken to extend from Teddington Lock to a line between Yantlet Creek in Kent and the City Stone opposite Canvey Isle and in Essex'.
Town of the Ford of the Hurdles - Dublin
mall - a sheltered walk serving as a promenade; in some towns adopted as a proper name + (notebook 1924): 'Gardiner's Mall (O'Connell St)' → Gardiner's Mall became Sackville Street, then O'Connell Street, Dublin.
rivier (Dutch) - river + RIVERSIDE DRIVE - On the upper West side of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River, New York City.
embankment - a mound, bank, or other structure for confining a river, etc. within fixed limits + (notebook 1930): 'embankment' → Booth: In Darkest England and the Way Out 25: (of the Embankment in London) 'There are still a large number of Londoners and a considerable percentage of wanderers from the country in search of work, who find themselves at nightfall destitute. These now betake themselves to the seats under the plane trees on the Embankment'.
flott (ger) - fast, buoyant + Flotte (ger) - fleet of ships + Ringsend, district of Dublin, had ferry.
bump - to come with a bump or violent jolt against; to move with a bump or a succession of bumps + (notebook 1930): 'She began to bump a little bit' → What Ho! She Bumps (song): 'She began to bump a bit'.
The Lord Mayors when "riding the franchises" threw a spear or dart into the sea from Ringsend to mark the limits of city jurisdiction.
brink - the edge of the land bordering a piece of water, as a river, lake, the sea: formerly = 'bank, shore, brim'; now esp. when this rises abruptly from the water.
strond = strand (obs.)
mace - a heavy staff or club, either entirely of metal or having a metal head, often spiked; a sceptre or staff of office, resembling in shape the weapon of war, which is borne before (or was formerly carried by) certain officials. Also formerly = the sceptre of sovereignty.
talis Cuchulainn qualis Ajax (l) - Cuchulainn is of the same sort as Ajax + talis... qualis (l) - such... as.
high jinks - a name given to various frolics formerly indulged in at drinking parties. They mostly consisted in deciding by the throw of dice who should perform some ludicrous task for the amusement of the company, or who should empty a large bowl of liquor, failure in either case entailing a forfeit + jakes - a privy; excrement; filth.
uprise - to rise or ascend to a higher level; to rise into view + lit. aufreissen (ger) - tear up.
magician - one skilled in magic or sorcery
puntpole - the long pole used in propelling a punt
trident - an instrument or weapon with three prongs; esp. A three-pronged fish-spear or sceptre as the attribute of the sea-god Poseidon or Neptune, also figured as borne by Britannia + triodontos (gr) - three-pronged.
sire - to beget or procreate, to become the sire of
Triton - Gr. and Rom. Myth. Proper name of a sea-deity, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, or of Neptune and Salacia, or otherwise of Nereus; also, one of a race of inferior sea-deities, or imaginary sea-monsters, of semi-human form.
stock - the source of a line of descent, the progenitor of a family or race; a thrusting sword + Stock (ger) - stick + Joyce's note: 'STOCK IM EISEN' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the Stock im Eisen, the stump of a tree, said to be the last survivor of a holy grove round which the original settlement of Vindomina sprang up. It is full of nails driven into it by travelling journeymen'.
ferrule - a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting + far ruler.
bade - pa. tense of bid
poly- - many, multy, much + fizzy - given to fizz (to make a hissing or sputtering sound) + boisterous - Of wind, weather, waves, etc.: Rough, the opposite of 'calm' + polyphloisbos (gr) - loud-roaring: Homeric epithet of the seas.
hemselve - themselves + hem (Archaic) - them.
os - obs. variant of us + os (us) (gael) - deer.
backwards + ruckwarts (ger) - backwards + rook (Dutch) - smoke.
stammering sea (notebook 1924) + stammerer.
abridge - to shorten; to make shorter, to cut short in its duration, to lessen the duration of
norsemanship - ? Viking ship + damn fine horsemanship.
abate - to lessen or lower in force or intensity (a quality, feeling, action, etc.); to diminish, lessen + (notebook 1930): 'Donabate' → Donabate, village, County Dublin.
Maidan - great park in Calcutta, contains racecourse + maiden race - one open to horses that have never won prizes.
baresark - [lit. = 'bare shirt,'] in a shirt only, without armour; a berserker, or wild Norse warrior; sometimes explained as a warrior fighting in his 'bare shirt.'
fleshly - 'in the flesh'; in the way of sexual intercourse, sexually
bawdy - inchastity, illicit intercourse; of, pertaining to, or befitting a bawd; lewd, obscene, unchaste + Anglican marriage ceremony: 'With my body I thee worship'.
worship - to honour or revere as a supernatural being or power, or as a holy thing
min - obs. form of mine + min bryllupsviv (Danish Artificial) - my wedded wife.
heyday - state of exaltation or excitement of the spirits or passions; the height, zenith, or acme of anything which excites the feelingsp + Hades (gr) - god of the lower world.
Bosphoros (gr) - "Heifer's ford": strait at Istanbul
*A* 10 bridges (notebook 1924) → Freeman's Journal 21 May 1924, 7/5: 'Liffey Tunnel Project': 'A proposal to construct a tunnel under the Liffey is at present being considered, which is a matter calling for the fullest publicity. In view of the fact that the river is already spanned by ten bridges and also possesses efficient ferry services, the need of a tunnel is not very obvious'.
archetype - the original pattern or model from which copies are made + Arsch (ger) - arse + arse over tip (phrase).
overtop - to rise over or above the top of; to surpass in height, surmount; fig. To rise above in power or authority; to be superior to + tup - to copulate (like a ram).
Echobank (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 939d: 'In the south side are the Grange, Newington or Echobank, and Morningside cemeteries'.
by dint of - by force of; by means of (with implication of vigour or persistence in the application of the means) + by dint of sword - by attack with weapons of war; by force of arms.
Galata (l) - a Galatian: Celt of Asia Minor + Galata - bridge in Istanbul + Galateia (gr) - "Milk-white": a sea-nymph + Thalatta! Thalatta! - Sea! Sea! (cry of Xenophon's men).
shewolf - a female wolf; a woman who boldly and aggresively goes after men + Gulf Stream.
streng - dial. f. strong
male stream - obs. ff. maelstrom (a famous whirlpool in the Arctic Ocean on the west coast of Norway, formerly supposed to suck in and destroy all vessels within a long radius).
Ringstrasse (ger) - circular road + Ringstrasse is the bulevard which encircles the central city, on the site of the fortifications dismantled in 1857 + Joyce's note: 'RINGSTRESS' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 50d: 'a magnificent boulevard, the Ring-Strasse'.
thumb - to feel with or as with the thumb, to handle; to soil or wear (esp. a book) with the thumbs in using or handling; to press, smooth, clean, spread, or smear with the thumb.
jern (Danish) - iron + Ierne - name for Ireland used by some Latin writers.
tradesman - one who is engaged in trade or the sale of commodities; esp. a shopkeeper + trademark.
mine - fig. An abundant source of supply; a store from which (something specified) may be obtained in plenty.
all and sundry - all, everyone; each one
hodie (l) - today + inde (ine) (gael) - yesterday + idag (Danish) - today.
igon - pa. tense of i-gin (to begin) + indiu (inu) (gael) - today + igaar (Danish) - yesterday.
imbarach (imarokh) (gael) - tomorrow + Morgen (ger) - tomorrow + imorgen (Danish) - tomorrow.
for evigheden (Danish) - for eternity
base - to lower; to bring, cast, or lay down + (notebook 1930): 'strike its flag lower its peak' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. X: 'to keep an eye on the river, and oblige every vessel that passed... to strike its flag, lower its peak, and pay toll to the Lord of Rensellaersteen' + (Guinness barge lowering funnel to pass under Liffey bridges).
strike one's flag - to haul it down, in token of respect, submission, or, in an engagement, of surrender
screech - a loud, harsh, piercing cry
shipping - a ship or ships for the use or accommodation of a person or thing; the action of putting persons or things on board ship or transporting them by ship
low - to make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
Dampf (ger) - steam, vapour + Stamboul - Istanbul.