Was iz

• Was → Wasis → was iz
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Was ist? Isolde? Tristan’s first words in Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde

• Was ist's? (German) What's that? What is it?

• was iz? Iseut?: What is? Is it?

• was/is: what was in the past is now in the present (and ever shall be) → Viconian cycle

• iz → Issy