Difference between revisions of "There is but young gleve"
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| − | * '''gleve:''' a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve | + | * '''gleve (glaive):''' a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve |
* '''claidheamh:''' (''Irish'') a sword (pronounced ''cleeve'') | * '''claidheamh:''' (''Irish'') a sword (pronounced ''cleeve'') | ||
Revision as of 13:23, 31 December 2006
- There is but one God: the first half of the Islamic shahadah, or profession of faith → it forms part of the daily prayers (salat) which devout Muslims are obliged to recite five times a day
- Glaube: (German) faith, belief
- Globe: the Globe Theatre, one of London's Bankside theatres, in which several of Shakespeare's plays were premiered
- gleve (glaive): a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve
- claidheamh: (Irish) a sword (pronounced cleeve)
- young gleve: a possible mistranscription of Joyce's young glebe; in the first draft Joyce wrote, one globe
