allmerciful; Necronomicon: "Original title Al Azif being the word used by the Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) supposed to be the howling of demons. Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaa, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished in the time of the Ommiade Caliphs, circa A.D. 700." - H. P. Lovecraft, "The History and Chronology of the Necronomicon".
halo - to surround, encompass, or invest with a halo (the circle or disk of light with which the head is surrounded in representations of Christ and the Saints; the ideal glory with which a person or thing is invested when viewed under the influence of feeling or sentiment).
rill - a small stream; a brook, runnel, rivulet; Phonetics. Used attrib. to designate a fricative produced by forcing air through a groove-like aperture between the tongue and the roof of the mouth.
unhemmed - not hemmed; unconfined, unrestrained
uneven - not smooth or level; irregular, broken, rugged
manifesto* - a public declaration or proclamation, usually issued by or with the sanction of a sovereign prince or state, or by an individual or body of individuals whose proceedings are of public importance, for the purpose of making known past actions, and explaining the reasons or motives for actions announced as forthcoming; mama - mother; festa - a feast, festival.
memorialize - to preserve the memory of, to be or supply a memorial of
disjointed - consisting of separated or ill-connected parts; disconnected
Augustus, Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 B.C-A.D. 14)* - first Roman emperor, a triumvir along with Mark Antony and Lepidus. His Greek name was Sebastos. His wife was Livia; Augusta (l) - "Highness": title of emperor's wife, mother, daughter, sister; [city of] Augustus: name of several towns.
angustissimus (l) - narrowest, closest; augustissimus (l) - most majestic, most venerable O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake
Sebastos (gr) - Venerable, Reverend, August: Greek equivalent of Latin Augustus.
rockaby* - hushaby
booby - an awkward foolish person, dope; breast
anastasis (gr) - rising again, rising up (from the dead), resurrection
duddy - ragged, tattered
silver wedding* - the twenty-fifth anniversary of a wedding
amour - love, affection (obs.)
icy - resembling ice, extremely cold (of demeanour, character, speech, etc.)
Siseule, Icy* - Mr O Hehir says, Irish for "Cecilia" and a name for a hen.
saith - 3d. sing of say
"Sawyer" is a tree standing in a stream, and Peter means "rock." In a sawing-pit, there is a top sawyer and a bottom sawyer. Colloquially, a top sawyer was one prominent in society on politics. Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake
dico (l) - I say
et tu [Brute] (l) - and even you [Brutus]
mihi (l) - to me
birthplace* - the place where a person (or fig. a thing) is born
bite - a piece bitten off (usually to eat), a mouthful.
woebegone* - exhibiting great woe, sorrow or misery
brewer* - one who brews; spec. one whose trade is to make malt liquors Hebrew
waterman - a man employed in the supply or distribution of water; e.g. a water-carrier, a turncock or fireman, a man engaged in the irrigation of water-meadows, or in pumping; Waterman - American fountain pen.
brayn = brain - to conceive in the brain (obs.); to furnish with a brain.
flee - to run away from, hasten away from; to quit abruptly, forsake
chink* - a fissure caused by splitting, a crevice; an opening in a joint between boards.
Flur (ger) - floor
Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis (l) - "Collected [Works] on Irish Matters": collection of Irish historical documents published 1770 by Vallancey. O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake
Britoness - a female Briton
peopler - one who peoples or causes the peopling of a country; a colonizer; an inhabitant.
hosebond* = husband (obs.)
plethoric - full to excess, overstocked, overloaded; swollen, inflated, turgid.
"My Husband's a Journey to Portugal Gone" is the aim of T Moore's ''Ne'er Ask the Hour, What Is It to Us."
ark - a chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle A
needlework - work done with the needle; sewing, embroidery, or fancy work.
parlormaid* - a female domestic servant
placeat vestrae [majestati] (l) - may it please Your [Majesty]
"Nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clapp (sic) can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization" - Ezra Pound's comment about Finnegans Wake
portentum (l) - sign, omen; monster; portentosus (l) - full of monsters.
gonder = gander
When the
myrtle of Venus joins with Bacchus's vine - line from song "To Anacreon
in Heaven" (air of Star-Spangled Banner).