Difference between revisions of "Orra whyi deed ye diie?"
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* '''diie:''' in FW '''ii''' usually denotes [[Issy]] (her "eyes") | * '''diie:''' in FW '''ii''' usually denotes [[Issy]] (her "eyes") | ||
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Revision as of 15:32, 19 January 2014
- Finnegan's Wake: (song) "Arrah, Tim avourneen, why did you die?"
- Pretty Molly Brannigan: (song) "When I hear yiz crying around me, ‘Arrah, why did ye die?’"
- oros (ορος): (Greek) mountain → mon two lines above
- orra: idle, worthless; odd
- arrah: (Anglo-Irish interjection) but, now, really, then, truly; used at the beginning of a clause in an expostulatory or deprecating sense
- hurrah: (archaic English interjection derived from the Persian) an exclamation of joy or approbation
- arruh (Hebrew) "rase (destroy) it". Allegedly the origin of "hurrah": "Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, arruh!, arruh!, even to the foundation thereof" (Psalm 137:7)
- diie: in FW ii usually denotes Issy (her "eyes")
