lioness (Slang) - prostitute + Lyons Tea Shops, London.
humdrum - dullness, monotony + Lom-drom (Loumdrum) (gael) - Bare-ridge + Dundrum - district of Dublin + drum (Slang) - brothel + London + {with all the teashop lions of London up against him}
Ivanhoe - novel by Sir Walter Scott
gaga - crazy + up against - against.
lapsus linguæ - a slip of the tongue + lapsi (Finnish) - child + linquo (l) - I leave.
rovidebb (Hungarian) - shorter
short temper + -empa (Finnish) - (comparative; e.g. Finnish vanhempa: older).
Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 328: (of East Caucasian languages, such as Chechen) 'all the nouns are divided among several "classes" or grammatical genders, of which the number sometimes reaches up to six... Each gender is characterised by a consonant'.
Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Ballad of Francis Villon: 'Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name'
nad (Serbian) - above (shorter of iznad)
Vanity Fair - a place or scene where all is frivolity and empty show; the world or a section of it as a scene of idle amusement and unsubstantial display + vanha (Finnish) - old + vanhat (Finnish) - the old ones + "bear" - Ursa Major [Maurice Behan] + Vanity Fair - novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848).
casuality - the relationship between cause and effect, the principle that everything has a cause
pester - to annoy, trouble; to entangle, obstruct the movements of (obs.) + preposter = praeposter - now used chiefly at English independent schools which began as grammar schools for the teaching of Latin grammar. It is the equivalent of prefect. The word originally referred to a monastic prior and is late Latin of the Middle Ages, derived from classical Latin praepositus, "placed before".
crossword - a puzzle in which a pattern of chequered squares has to be filled in from numbered clues with words which are written usu. horizontally and vertically
post postition - placing (as a particle) after a gram. related word (as ward in cityward) + Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 164: (of Finnish) 'most postpositions are formed with the genitive'.
scruff - the nape of the neck; to seize (a person) by the nape of the neck; Applied to what is worthless or contemptible; refuse, litter; spec. base money + Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 167: (of Finnish) 'this comparative can also be applied to a noun: Finnish ranta "shore, bank", rannempana "closer to the shore"'.
ream - a large quantity of written matter; a quantity of paper (480 or 500 sheets) + without rhyme or reason (phrase).
it stands to reason (that) - it is quite clear (that), it is reasonable, it is natural or evident (that)
lanka (Finnish) - thread + life line (palmistry).
wipe - to put all to death, destroy completely, exterminate + wipe arse [.07]
Halley's Comet - the best-known of the short-period comets, visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years
spook - to inhabit or visit as a spook, scare, frighten + Ally Sloper - grotesque, disreputable figure in a late-19th-century comic paper + 'spooky speaker'.
metaphorically - in a metaphorical sense; by the use of metaphor + multi-phonetically + phone (gr) - sound, voice + pohjoinen (Finnish) - the north.
Erse - Irish + face of the earth - surface of the earth + Asar, Ausar, Wsir, Wesir - Original (Kemetic) name of Osiris.
FDV: After bloody Sunday, though every door in muchtried Lucalizod was smeared with generous gore and the every cobbleway slippery with the blood of heroes, the low waster never had the pluck to venture out while everyone else [of the city throng,] slashers and sliced alike, waded about on their usual avocations for the only once he took a peep through his keyhole to find out whether conciliation was forging ahead or falling back and why he found himself looking into the barrel of an irregular revolver at point blank range at point blank range of an irregular revolver [of the bulldog pattern] of some unknown quarreler [who supposedly had been told off to shade Shem should he come stir out [awhile] to be creased]
SDV: After the thorough fright he got that bloody Sunday, though every doorpost in muchtried Lucalizod was smeared with generous gore & every cobbleway free for all slippery with the blood of heroes, the low waster never had the common baa lamb's pluck to stir out & about while everyone else of the city throng, slashers & sliced alike, waded around on their daily bonafide avocations or some others stonestepped stonestepping across the human bridge on their usual quest for after higher things, across the human bridge set up over the slop by Messrs the charitable government, for the only once he took a tompeep through a 3 draw telescope through his westernmost keyhole with an eachway hope in his [shivering] soul to find out whether conciliation was forging ahead or falling back & why he found himself at point blank range blinking into the barrel of an irregular revolver of the true bulldog pattern handled by and unknown quarreler who supposedly had been told off to shade & shoot shy Shem should the shit show his shiny nose out awhile to look facts in the face before he got hosed & creased by 1 or 2 of the playboys.
thorough - applied to or affecting every part or detail, complete + (notebook 1923): 'thoroughly afraid'.
Saint Swithin's Day - 15 July + Whitsunday - the seventh Sunday after Easter, observed as a festival of the Christian Church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost + Sunday.
doorpost - the post on each side of a door-way, on one of which the door is hung + Exodus 12:7: 'and they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses' (Passover).
tried - proved or tested by experience or examination
Lucan + Chapelizod.
erst (ger) - first + eerstgeboren (Dutch) - firstborn (Passover).
gore - blood in the thickened state that follows effusion. In poetical language often: Blood shed in carnage (blood and gore, bloody gore)
free for all - unrestricted as to entries, participants or users
cobble - a water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving + Joyce's note: 'stepping stones slippery with blood of heroes'.
welkin - sky, the heavens + to the welkin - 'to the skies' + (notebook 1924): 'blood calls for blood cry to heaven' → Lamy: Commentarium in Librum Geneseos I.253: 'The voice of thy brother's blood crieth, a personification to indicate the atrocity of the crime. Crieth unto me, desiring heavenly vindication' (Genesis 4:10)).
cul vert (fr) - green arse + culvert - a canal or drain of masonry conveying water beneath a road or embankment + (notebook 1924): 'noah = culvert' → Dupont: Le Mont Saint-Michel Inconnu 299: 'On the sands, impregnated by the tides, the flow deposits the salt it carries; the salt workers scraped the sand with a kind of plane, pulled by a horse; when a sufficient amount of this virgin sand had been gathered near the salt works, it was put in a pit, upon which sea water was poured; this water, in passing through the sand, dissolved the salt and flowed in "noës" or reeds, into barrels sunk in the salt works'.
agush - in a gushing state, gushing
waster - one who lives in idleness and extravagance; one who wastefully dissipates or consumes his resources, an extravagant spender, a squanderer, spendthrift
baalamb - Nursery equivalent of 'lamb' + Baal - Semitic fertility god + Joyce's note: 'Doran's ass Balaam's [ass]' (Balaam's ass warned him of Yahweh's wrath).
pluck - the heart as the seat of courage; courage, boldness
stir - to pass from rest to motion, to begin to move, to move or walk about + stirabout - a kind of porridge + FDV: the low waster never had the pluck to venture out
compound - a union, combination, or mixture of elements; an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) + (Giza pyramid complex).
throng - a crowded mass of persons actually (or in idea) assembled together, a crowd
slasher - a hero whose main power is some form of hand-to-hand cutting weapon
sliced - cut into slices
massa - master (southern negro speech) + massa (it) - crowd, mob + en masse (fr) - as one body, overwhelmingly.
waden (Dutch) - to wade (stem 'waad') + Wadjet - one of the oldest Egyptian goddesses. Her worship was already established by the Predynastic Period + FDV: while everyone else [of the city throng,] slashers and sliced alike, waded about on their usual avocations
baad (Danish) - boat + baden (Dutch) - to bathe (stem 'baad') + Bat - an ancient cow goddess of Upper Egypt.
yam (Hebrew) - sea + yam (Mon Khmer) - to die + p-yam (Mon Khmer) - to kill.
pan-p-yam (Mon Khmer) - killing, execution
Gillooly (notebook 1924) → Kinane: St. Patrick 10: (quoting a letter of approbation from the Bishop of Elphin) 'Very sincerely yours... L. GILLOOLY, Bishop of Elphin'.
patriotic poetry + attic + Paul/Peter.
pia et pura bella (l) - pious and pure wars (Vico) + O pura e pia bella (it) - O pure and pious fair one.
junk - a name for the common type of native sailing vessel in the Chinese seas + nunc et semper (l) - 'now, and always'.
sampan - a Chinese word meaning 'boat', applied by Europeans in the China seas to any small boat of Chinese pattern
sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper; et in saecula saeculorum (l) - As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be; world without end.
march head up (notebook 1924)
bona fide - acting in good faith
avocation - an auxiliary activity, diversion, distraction + SDV: while everyone else of the city throng, slashers & sliced alike, waded around on their daily bonafide avocations
treat - an entertainment of any kind given gratuitously, esp. to children
stray - having gone astray, strayed, wandering (as, a strayhorse or sheep)
whizzer - something or someone extraordinary or wonderful, a 'stunner' + ("zinzin": sound of school bell).
sing out - to make a cry, call
intermediately - between things or times, indirectly + Intermediate Examination (Ireland) + intermittently - stopping or starting at intervals.
vying = pres p. of vie - to enter into, or carry on, rivalry; to contend or compete for superiority in some respect
avenge - to take vengeance, inflict retributive punishment, or retaliate on account of, or to exact satisfaction for
jobber - wholesaler, one on job or work + Majuba and Ladysmith - as Mrs Yoder says, battles in the Boer War + 'Avenge Majuba!' - rallying cry in Boer War.
Isaac Bickerstaff - pseudonym of Jonathan Swift; pretend author of Swift's Predictions for the Year 1708. Hewson, a cobbler, came to London, called himself Partridge, turned astrologer and almanack-maker and was much favored by William III because of vile denunciations of popery. Swift assumed the persona of a rival almanack-maker and predicted Partridge's death - "murdered a man by way of prophecy," as Hosty does in "The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly".
plink - a sharp metallic or ringing noise + plinkity plonk (World War I Slang) - white wine [Hargrave: Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases & Names 370: 'PLINKITY-PLONK. Vin blanc'].
plonk - hollow, metallic or harsh sound
span - the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger; the space equivalent to this taken as a measure of length, averaging nine inches
ponte (it) - bridge + (rainbow after Flood) + SDV: or some others stonestepped stonestepping across the human bridge on their usual quest for after higher things, across the human bridge set up over the slop by Messrs the charitable government,
dei colori (l) - to the color of a god + ponte dei colori (it) - bridge of colours.
slop - a mud puddle, slush, soft mud; refuse liquid of any kind
war to end war (phrase) - World War I
MM the govt (Joyce's note) → Leader 11 Nov 1922, 325/1: 'A Candid Critic on the Government': 'I have done something over the years towards making it possible for Messrs the Provisional Government Ministry to occupy their present exalted position'.
dose (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - those + dia dos finados (Portuguese) - All Souls' Day, 2 November.
peeping Tom - a person who gets pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from secretly watching others + FDV: for the only once he took a peep through his keyhole
pipistrello (it) - bat + finestrella (it) - small window + estrela (Portuguese) - star + strela (Serbian) - arrow + Pip and Estella - characters in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Ulysses has three books and eighteen chapters + (notebook 1923): '3 draw telescope' + (having three withdrawable parts).
hawk - any diurnal bird of prey used in falconry; any bird of the family Falconidæ
dur-dicki mengri (Gipsy) - telescope (literally 'far-seeing thing') + dicky - of inferior quality, sorry, poor + dick - penis + FDV: through a 3 draw telescope through his westernmost keyhole with an eachway hope in his [shivering] soul to find out whether conciliation was forging ahead or falling back
luminous - full of light; emitting or casting light; Of a room: Well lighted.
larboard - the side of a ship which is to the left hand of a person looking from the stern towards the bows; humorously used for: Left + Valery Larbaud assisted in the French translation of Ulysses.
Nassau Street, Dublin, used to have streetlamps on south side only + nass (ger) - wet + Strasse (ger) - street.
At the top of the southern shaft of the Queens Chamber, a small limestone block with two copper fittings was discovered. When an opening was drilled through this small limestone block and an endoscopic camera inserted, archaeologists discovered a narrow empty space terminated by a rough limestone block, thought to be part of the pyramid core. The shaft in the north side of the Queens Chamber is the same. The corridor ends in front of a white limestone block bearing the traces of two copper fittings. Quarry marks are still visible, along with the sign of the work-gang "wadi" ("the green ones"). and a sign thought to be the hieroglyph "prjj" ("to come out" of the tomb) + REFERENCE
spit - to eject saliva (at or on a person or thing) as a means of expressing hatred or contempt
impenetrable - that can not be penetrated, pierced or entered + (notebook 1924): 'impenetrable weather' → Irish Independent 19 Sep 1924, 7/1: 'At Bantry. Boat Swamped. Man Isolated on the Rocks. Irishmen in the Crew... Captain's Evidence. Impenetrable Weather'.
wetter - dial. form of water + Wetter (ger) - weather.
porco (it) - pig; (fig.) dirty man
outono (Portuguese) - autumn
The two "air shafts" in the Queens Chamber were originally bricked up and not discovered until 1872. Averaging about twenty centimetres square, they rise from the north and south walls of the chamber and climb steeply up through the masonry above. The shafts are not entirely straight. The north shaft bends after about seventeen meters, possibly to curve around the grand galley. Similar shafts can also be found in the Kings Chamber.
account + akka (Finnish) - old woman.
rules + kula (Serbian) - tower + kule (Selkup Samoyed) - crow + kuleag (Selkup Samoyed) - the two crows.
Massacre by Black and Tans of Irish leaving football game in Croke Park, Dublin, 1920 + parka (Finnish) - poor.
owing + ovum (l) - egg
code - a system or collection of rules or regulations on any subject = codex (obs.) + kokosh (Serbian) - hen + cod's eggs + cock's eggs.
Kalevala - Finnish national epic + kala (Finnish) - fish + tavala (Finnish) - in a way.
conciliation - conversion from a state of hostility or distrust
forge - to progress, advance
celestious - of or pertaining to the sky or material heavens; of or pertaining to heaven, as the abode of God (or of the heathen gods), of angels, and of glorified spirits
intemperance - lack of moderation or temperance, excess; drunkenness
Devil sake + Duvvel (Gipsy) - God + duvel (Dutch) - devil + dove (Asat) + Sache (ger) - thing, cause.
'see me', 'my see' and 'my seeing' are literal translations of Selkup Samoyed constructions for 'I see' and 'what I see' [Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 168: (of Selkup Samoyed) 'If it involves a concept that we express by the use of a verb... I see... he still says:... see-me... I can say: I see a horse... the Samoyed... says: see-my, that is: my act of seeing'] + (looking with two eyes, ˙׀˙)
corvo maggiore (it) - raven + korva (Finnish) - ear + {looking with one eye, ׀˙, and seeing curves of raven i.e. Nebthwt (Greek: Nephthys), [meaning "the Mistress of the House". The word "hwt" ("house") may refer to the sky (as in Hwt-hor, the "House of Horus": the name of Hathor)]}.
"decentest dozendest short of a frusker" [050.07] → Frisky Shorty and Decent Sort i.e. three soldiers lying low and looking at him.