Dopedope et tu mihimihi

From FinnegansWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
  • ik doop: (Dutch) I baptise
  • Ip Dip: nursery rhyme, see Ik
  • "et tu?: from (Latin) Et tu, Brute?", meaning "Even you, Brutus?" or 'You too, Brutus?', a phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Thus, an eclamation of ultimate betrayal.
  • "Et Tu Healy": Joyce's poem on Parnell's death
  • mihi: (Latin) to me
  • Mimi: character in Puvccini's opera La Bohème (1896)
  • Echo of tauftauf (Page 3)
    • Tauftauf from taufen: (German) to baptise
  • Echo of mishe mishe (Page 3)
    • Italian mise: I, me (emphatic); I am.
    • Mosheh, Mosheh: ("Moses, Moses!") in Exodus 3.4:words spoken by Yahweh to Moses from the burning bush. Early lives of St Patrick said that he resembled Moses in four ways.