stoker - one who feeds and tends a furnace
eavesdrop - to stand within the 'eavesdrop' of a house in order to listen to secrets; hence, to listen secretly to private conversation, to listen to the secrets of (a person) + tempted by Eve (i.e. Adam).
avatar - the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form; manifestation; display
dreamers + Dromios - twins in William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors + dromios (gr) - twins [McHugh has dromios meaning "twins" in Greek, which is inaccurate: is a rare form of name of the Greek god of the racecourse (David Hyman, Sam Slote: Genetic studies in Joyce)].
Dromios (gr) - god of the racecourse + dromos (gr) - racecourse + drøm (Norwegian) - dream.
lentil - the seed of a leguminous plant (Ervum lens, Lens esculenta) + Esau sold his birthright for pottage of lentils (Genesis 25) + as alike as two peas in a pod - two identical items or people (this simile, of course, derives from the fact that two peas from the same pod are virtually indistinguishable).
pelt - to thrust away or out
coram populo - before the people, in public
by the powers! - Exclamation originating in its application to the pagan divinities.
in principal - principally, chiefly + Niccolo Machiavelli: Il Principe (The Prince).
Machiavelli's principles - methods preferring expediency to morality + ma che vuole! (it) - what does he want!
Roosky - Russian + Rooskay - village, County Roscommon.
kamerad - comrade, companion
Norwegian + Galwegian - inhabitant of Galloway, Scotland.
bishop + drunk as a fish (phrase).
whither - whether
smuke - to smoke
phlegm - the thick viscid fluid or semifluid substance secreted by the mucous membranes, esp. of the respiratory passages; mucus + burst into flames - to go on fire; to inflame with anger, passion or zeal.
ejaculation - the hasty utterance of words expressing emotion; the discharging of the male sperm + Ajacis (l) - Ajax + Ajaccio - capital of Corsica.
Corsican + crosscut (intersect) lane + 'Cruiskeen Lawn' (little full jug) - Irish air.
cosa (kuse) (geal) - legs, feet + cossa (Italian Dialect) - what?
corso - a pompous step or walk + corso (it) - course.
cursus - curse + in cursu (l) - in progress, underway + ricorso (Italian) - recurring (Vico).
coarse - rough, rude, uncivil, vulgar + curse + Father O'Flynn (song): 'sláinte and sláinte and sláinte again'.
"Yellow Wat and the Fox" is the air of T Moore's song "Oh Doubt Me Not" + {Was the gracious miss aware of how the song was altered?}
alter (geld) [notebook 1924] → Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 248 (sec. 247): 'to alter is said in the Southern States instead of to geld'.
easily + usually + Esau (and Jacob two lines below)
O'Dubhda (o'dude) (geal) - descendant of Dubhda ("black")
see you Sunday (Joyce's note) → Key: John McCormack, His Own Life Story 424: '"So-long," he replied, "see you Thursday"'.
pederast - lower of boys, one that practices pederasty, a sodomite + pedigree
prig - a thief; a spruce fellow, a dandy + pig
bejabers - by Jesus (exclamation)
gentleman who pays the rent - a pig + lent - loan.
middle class - the class of society between the 'upper' and the 'lower' class
portavorax (l) - gate-devouring (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake)
bynight - a letter dispatched by the night post
god tempers the wind to the shorn lamb - god is merciful to those who had suffered misfortune + (notebook 1924): 'a vomit to a poor man 3d'.
Ragnar Lodbrok ("shaggy breeches") - Viking, saga hero who, tradition says, died in Ireland + Ragnarøkr (Old Norse) - destruction of the Norse gods + recognized
court martial - a judicial court, consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of military or naval offences, or the administration of martial law
Corcaigh (kurki) (geal) - Swamp; anglic. Cork
skilly - an insipid beverage, tea or coffee, watery porridge or soup + sceillig (shkelig) (geal) - Reef; rocky islands off Co. Kerry; anglic. Skelligs; also, the Scillies.
gart (gort) (geal) - planted field; letter G; hospitality + Londonderry (Ulster), Cork (Munster), Skerries (Leinster), Gort (Connacht).
gate - method, way, technique, style + Irish riddle: 'Londonderry, Cork and Kerry, Spell me that without an R'; answer: 'THAT'.
heliotrope (Clytie pined for Apollo and turned into a heliotrope) + hardly a drop.
grazing rights - the rights of using grazing ground or pasture land
magistra (l) - mistress
expiry - expiration
goodsire - grandfather
worshipful - honorific title for persons or bodies of distinguished rank or importance
waders - waterproof boots reaching above the knee
recipis (l) - you get back, retain, receive + recipe
velocipede - wheel; an early form of the bicycle or tricycle
kitcat - a portrait of less than half length but including the hands + that
maunder - to talk in the dreamy and foolish manner characteristic of dotage or imbecility; to ramble or wander in one's talk + 'A Tuscan tongue in a Roman mouth', i.e., Roman pronunciation and Tuscan syntax, is a definition of good Italian + maundering (Archaic) - begging + mandarin (T.S. Eliot's style has been described as 'mandarin').
pondering + Ezra Pound translated Chinese poetry.
ourdir (French) - to hatch (a plot) + further orders + Our Father.
pronunciation + pre- (i.e. pronunciation of initial letters [.17]).
distributary - distributive; something whose function is to distribute; applied to branch canals distributing water from a main one
ending - termination, conclusion, completion
Quare hircum (l) - Why the goat?
Unde gentium fe[stines] (l) - Whence on earth are you hurrying? Where are you hurrying from? + unde (l) - from where.
ah - O! Oh! + no answer + Noah + Albert and Victoria Nyanza - the two western reservoirs of the Nile.
siar (shir) (geal) - westward, backward + Siar - West Indian pronunciation of Sir + sir, indeed.
old + olda (Fulfulde) - yellow [see "yellowatty" in the lines above and the "maundarin tongue" a couple of lines above to confirm the translation (Karl Reisman)]
intendant - one who has the charge, direction, or superintendence of a department of public business, the affairs of a town or province, the household of a prince or nobleman, etc.; a superintendent, a manager + attendant
Pulu
- Fulfulde ("Pullo" singular) [Note: the only Indo-European language besides
Irish to have eclipsis is a rare language in India so that Fulfulde which does
have
it - at the beginning - "prenanciation" - is a very relevant candidate (Karl
Reisman) →
"Darktongues":
Fufulde and Hausa in Finnegans Wake Karl Reisman]
Ogma Sun-face - Irish god, inventor of ogam (on ogham) letters + Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47-48 lists types of Ogham ciphers: Shirt-of-two-strokes Ogham, Mac (or Son) Ogham, Finn's-ladder Ogham (has three forms).
threeheaded - having three heads + Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47-48 lists types of Ogham ciphers: Finn's-three-shanked Ogham, Head-in-a-bush Ogham, Head-uder-a-bush Ogham.
Ogma Sun-face invented Ogham
bait - to tease, rouse, to entice by bait + bate (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - beat.
millrace - the current of water that drives a mill wheel + Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47-48 lists types of Ogham ciphers: Serpent-through-the-heather Ogham, Millrace Ogham.
deaf and dumb (Ogham is a sign and gesture language, thus similar to deaf and dumb sign language) + Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47-48 lists types of Ogham ciphers: Arm Ogham, Bird Ogham, Colour Ogham + a, b, c, d, e, f.
glonsk (Shelta) - man + g, h, j.
(Ogham is spoken with the hands)
Jotalpheson - Jason → In The Secret Languages of Ireland (90-91), MacAlister says that in Bog Latin certain letters in Irish words are replaced by the name of the Irish letter-of-the-alphabet, "as if a Greek meaning Jason called him 'Jotalphason'."
hokey - a mild oath; hokey pokey, something worthless or untrue + Holy
Jason - leader of the Argonauts in the quest for the golden fleece. Legend says he came to Ireland + Jesus
epexegesis (gr) - detailed explanation, addition of words to clarify the meaning intended in a preceding sentence + Pegasos (gr) - winged horse of the Muses + Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47-48 lists types of Ogham ciphers: Pig (Muc) Ogham.
pontiff - a chief or high priest (of any religion); a bishop (of the mediæval Western church); spec. and usually, the bishop of Rome, the pope + (Laudabiliter) [090.03]
true + Ture (ger) - door + sure as there's a tail on a cat (phrase).
athach (Irish) - peasant; churl; stammerer; giant + italic.
golo (Serbian) - naked + glory.
joss - a Chinese figure of a deity, an idol + joss (Pidgin) - God + glory be to God.
leally - loyally, truly, free from error + realy and truly.
handkerchief + Hankou - city in China (a revolutionary centre in 1911; also spelled Hankow).