Orra whyi deed ye diie?

• 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

• ouroboros: Ancient Greek symbol of a snake devouring its own tale; hence, a symbol of recursion.

• 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")