From FinnegansWiki
- broad on
- bradán: (Irish) salmon → HCE as the Salmon of knowledge in Irish mythology
- Brau: (German) brew
- braw: (Anglo-Irish) fine
- breá: (Irish) fine
- dawn
- dán: (Irish) poem
- Finnegan's Wake: (song) "and laid him out upon the bed"
- brow down: i.e., face down
