From FinnegansWiki
- boomerang: a wooden weapon or instrument most closely identified with Australian Aborigines
- Strom: (German) stream
- Bummerin, the bell of Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral
- note that Austrians don't like to be confused with Austrialians, and Joyce manages to put two allusions to both countries into two neighbooring words
- maelstroms: whirlpools
- booming storms ?
