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| − | * ''' | + | * '''Butt ended''' → "[[Parnell]] ousted Isaac Butt from leadership [of the Irish Parliamentary Party]" – Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] |
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans. | + | |
| + | * '''Isaac Butt:''' | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0134&isize=XL Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Butt Wikipedia] | ||
| + | ** [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ABOUT-WORDS/2002-01/1010280841 Re: Etymology as a leisure actrivity & The 'Wake'] | ||
* '''butt:''' (''n'') 1. "thick end," O.E. ''buttuc'' "end, small piece of land," akin to O.N. ''butr'' "short." In sense of "human posterior" it is recorded from 1450. Meaning "remainder of a smoked cigarette" first recorded 1847; 2. "target of a joke," 1616, originally "target for shooting practice" (1345), from O.Fr. ''but'' "aim, goal, '''end'''," perhaps from ''butte'' "mound, knoll," from Frank. ''*but'' (cf. O.N. butr "long of wood"), which would connect it with butt(1). [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=butt] | * '''butt:''' (''n'') 1. "thick end," O.E. ''buttuc'' "end, small piece of land," akin to O.N. ''butr'' "short." In sense of "human posterior" it is recorded from 1450. Meaning "remainder of a smoked cigarette" first recorded 1847; 2. "target of a joke," 1616, originally "target for shooting practice" (1345), from O.Fr. ''but'' "aim, goal, '''end'''," perhaps from ''butte'' "mound, knoll," from Frank. ''*but'' (cf. O.N. butr "long of wood"), which would connect it with butt(1). [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=butt] | ||
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** '''Genesis 27:25:''' "And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's '''[[Venissoon|venison]]''', that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he '''brought him wine, and he drank'''." | ** '''Genesis 27:25:''' "And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's '''[[Venissoon|venison]]''', that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he '''brought him wine, and he drank'''." | ||
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* '''buttended:''' struck with the butt-end of a gun | * '''buttended:''' struck with the butt-end of a gun | ||
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* '''Butt Bridge:''' a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin | * '''Butt Bridge:''' a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin | ||
Revision as of 20:28, 7 June 2008
- Butt ended → "Parnell ousted Isaac Butt from leadership [of the Irish Parliamentary Party]" – Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Isaac Butt:
- butt: (n) 1. "thick end," O.E. buttuc "end, small piece of land," akin to O.N. butr "short." In sense of "human posterior" it is recorded from 1450. Meaning "remainder of a smoked cigarette" first recorded 1847; 2. "target of a joke," 1616, originally "target for shooting practice" (1345), from O.Fr. but "aim, goal, end," perhaps from butte "mound, knoll," from Frank. *but (cf. O.N. butr "long of wood"), which would connect it with butt(1). [1]
- butt: (v) "hit with the head," c.1200, from Anglo-Norm. buter, from O.Fr. boter "to thrust against," from V.L. *bottare "thrust," or from Frankish (cf. O.N. bauta, Low Ger. boten "to strike, beat"), from P.Gmc. *butan, from PIE base *bhau- "to strike" (see batter (v.)). To butt in "rudely intrude" is Amer.Eng., 1900. [2]
- Genesis 27:35-36: "And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. / And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?"
- buttended → bartended
- Genesis 27:25: "And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank."
- buttended: struck with the butt-end of a gun
- Butt Bridge: a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin
- butted → goat → Jacob's goatskin (Genesis 27) → the zodiacal sign of Capricorn?
- pretended → scad
