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* ''G'' taufen: to baptise
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* '''tufftuff''' → '''tauftauf'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Tauf = baptise (German)"''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0284&isize=L&q1=mishe Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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*  '''taufen:''' (''German'') to baptise
 
** St Patrick was a disciple of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Germanus St Germanus], hence the use of German words
 
** St Patrick was a disciple of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Germanus St Germanus], hence the use of German words
 
** baptism → John the Baptist → Giovanni Battista → [[Vico|Giambattista Vico]]
 
** baptism → John the Baptist → Giovanni Battista → [[Vico|Giambattista Vico]]
 
** baptism → Jordan → Giordano Bruno
 
** baptism → Jordan → Giordano Bruno
  
* mishe mishe to tauftauf: "me me to thou thou"
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* '''teuf-teuf:''' "Well, '''teuf-teuf'''," I said moodily and withdrew. (P.G. Wodehouse: ''Very Good Jeeves: The Love That Purifies'', 1930); "Teuf-teuf" in French means the sound of a train ("töff töff" in my native German). Obviously "teuf-teuf" was a common phrase in Edwardian upperclass slang. So it suggests "I'll be gone, bye-bye" or something like that.
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* '''mishe mishe to tauftauf:''' "me me to thou thou"
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* '''tau, tau:''' (''Greek'') T, T → Tris-tram/Tram-tris, Tris-tan/Tan-tris, etc.
  
* ''Gr'' tau, tau: T, T → Tris-tram/Tram-tris, Tris-tan/Tan-tris
 
  
* ECHoes:
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[[Category: German phrases]]
** "a tofftoff for thee, missymissy for me" (FW 065.31)
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** "stuffstuff in the languish of flowers and feeling to find she was mushymushy, and wasn't that very both of them, the sauciscissters ... (peep!) ... (peepette!)" (FW 096.11 ff.)
 
** "My name is Misha Misha but call me Toffey Tough" (FW 249.29)
 
** "Miss Mishy Mushy is tiptupt by Toft Taft" (FW 277.10-11)
 
** "Stuff, Taaffe, stuff!" (FW 320.23)
 
** ""messy messy to look after our douche douche"" (FW 605.02)
 

Latest revision as of 11:12, 23 September 2009

  • taufen: (German) to baptise
    • St Patrick was a disciple of St Germanus, hence the use of German words
    • baptism → John the Baptist → Giovanni Battista → Giambattista Vico
    • baptism → Jordan → Giordano Bruno
  • teuf-teuf: "Well, teuf-teuf," I said moodily and withdrew. (P.G. Wodehouse: Very Good Jeeves: The Love That Purifies, 1930); "Teuf-teuf" in French means the sound of a train ("töff töff" in my native German). Obviously "teuf-teuf" was a common phrase in Edwardian upperclass slang. So it suggests "I'll be gone, bye-bye" or something like that.
  • mishe mishe to tauftauf: "me me to thou thou"
  • tau, tau: (Greek) T, T → Tris-tram/Tram-tris, Tris-tan/Tan-tris, etc.