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* '''Kilkenny:''' a county and town in Leinster | * '''Kilkenny:''' a county and town in Leinster | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0418&q1=Kilkelly A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0418&q1=Kilkelly A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
| + | ** '''Kilkenny Cats:''' to "fight like a Kilkenny cat" refers to an old story about two cats who fought to the death and ate each other up, leaving only their tails | ||
*'''kill:''' (Dutch) creek, stream, river | *'''kill:''' (Dutch) creek, stream, river | ||
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| + | * '''Killykillkilly:''' resembles a sound in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Hausmann Raoul Hausmann's] sound poem [http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/hausmann_raoul/Hausmann-Raoul_bbb-2.mp3 BBB], the second of his ''Phonemes'' of 1918 | ||
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| + | * '''Kisikillila:''' Sumerian name of a creature that will become Lilith. | ||
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| + | *'''Killy kill(s) Killy:''' deaths during a family feud | ||
Latest revision as of 07:01, 31 October 2023
- kilij (from Turkish kılıç, literally "a sword"): a Turkish saber with a crescent-shaped blade, sharp on the entire convex edge and sharp on the opposite edge for about 8 in. (20 cm) back from the point.
- kill: (Anglo-Irish) a church
- cill: (Irish) a church; monastic cell
- Kill! Kill! Kill!
- Kelly: a common Irish surname
- KKK: the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist society prominent in the southern states of the USA → interracial conflict between blacks and whites → Whoyteboyce and Hoodie Head
- Drom Cuill-Choille: (Irish) Hazelwood Ridge → according to antiquarian Walter Harris, this was an early name for Dublin
- Kilkelly: a village in County Mayo
- Kilkenny: a county and town in Leinster
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
- Kilkenny Cats: to "fight like a Kilkenny cat" refers to an old story about two cats who fought to the death and ate each other up, leaving only their tails
- kill: (Dutch) creek, stream, river
- Killykillkilly: resembles a sound in Raoul Hausmann's sound poem BBB, the second of his Phonemes of 1918
- Kisikillila: Sumerian name of a creature that will become Lilith.
- Killy kill(s) Killy: deaths during a family feud
