A Finnegans Wake Gaarden
PREFACE | ABBREVIATIONS | APPENDIX A | APPENDIX B | APPENDIX C | APPENDIX D | BIBLIOGRAPHY | REFERENCES | IRISH ALPHABET

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oak 16.31; 316.16; 338.25; 361.8; 370.24; 448.25.  Oak 545.36; 577.22. oaks 4.14; 53.15; 235.16.  oaktree 100.11.   oaktrees 202.30.   oakboys 395.9 - Boldereff:  "Unpaid workers who were required to build roads in Ireland.  In 1763-64 they rebelled and from the oaken branches which they wore in their hats were called 'Oak Boys'" (p.130).     bogoakgravy 171.1.  Begnal and Eckley:  "The oak in the Wake apropriately represents paternity, as in daddyoak [446.13] and in hegoak [5.7] on Earwicker's crest" (p. 168).  frondoak 460.24.  oakmulberryeke 221.33 - McHugh (A):  "Wild silkworms feed on oak but are cultured on mulberry."  scruboak 210.29.  robulus 12.34 (robulus (L) = oak or other sturdy tree).  robur 112.35 (robur (L) = oak.)  quercuss 128.2.  quercut 517.26 (quercus (L) = oak tree [oak leaf crown awarded to soldiers who saved citizens in battle]).  derry 59.1 (daire (Ga) = oak wood).   Dair's 69.8.  dairmaidens 601.8.  Dar 433.16; 575.24.  Wildairs' 210.25.  Oak is the fourth letter of the Irish alphabet - dair.

oats 406.35; 587.1; 602.36.  Gort 53.30 (gort (Ga) = oat field).

o'brier tree 588.31.

o'corneltree 588.31 (cornel = dogwood).

olive 38.2; 395.17; 612.10.  Olive 227.14; 279.F1; 525.29.  olives 335.28.  Olives 19.8; 138.25.  olivetion 160.11. ollaves 499.26.  drope 319.18.  druping 415.2 (drupa (L) = shriveled up olive; druppa (Gr) = olive).  O"Shea:  "The heraldic 'Arms of Dublin' show both Law and Justice holding an olive branch in their interior hands" (p. 185).

onion 406.7.  onions 190.5; 288.F1; 506.22.  uniomarghts 249.12.  onion (Margareter,...) 406.7 (unio (L) = a kind of single onion; unio margarita (L) pearl onion).

orange 43.8; 59.8; 69.35; 140.19; 405.33; 495.9; 556.11.  Orange 63.23; 135.12; 374.31; 498.8.  oranges 3.23 - McHugh (A):  "Basque word for orange etymologised 'the fruit which was first eaten.'"   bloodorange 208.15.  maundarin 171.16.  Melarancitrone 132.28 - McHugh (A):  "It melarancia:  orange."  norange 450.9.  earong 267.13 - McHugh (A):  "orange (anagram)."

orchid 530.25.  orchid 530.24.  Orchid 421.2.  orchids 59.8.  orchidectural 165.9.

oxeyed 480.10.

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