(20-05-2022, 09:29 AM)radapox Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....the letters are to be read exactly as they are transliterated in EVA. But there is no reason to assume that this is indeed the case.
Is there any reason to assume that this is not the case?
I'd say it's simply a matter of chance. What are the odds that of the gazillions of possible letter mappings (disregarding the question whether it's a one-to-one letter mapping in the first place), EVA happens to be the one that gets its exactly right? Even if there is a partial correspondence between some Voynich and Latin letter shapes, many of them hardly resemble their EVA counterpart at all (e.g.
f,
h,
j,
k,
m,
n,
t,
u,
x,
z), so the makers of EVA could have easily chosen to assign those letters in a completely different way. And what are we to make of the many rare Voynich shapes, compound ones, etc.?
(20-05-2022, 03:41 PM)radapox Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.so the makers of EVA could have easily chosen to assign those letters in a completely different way
Precisely, Radapox, there is nothing to stop you from assigning to the letters EVA the value you want.
Two other infinitives: olkain and fdykain:
- ·[font=Times New Roman] [/font]olkain (33) – anain – ανειν, inf. of ανω –, to bring to term ;
- ·[font=Times New Roman] [/font]fdykain (1) - ft9nain - φθινειν, inf. of φθτιω – to perish, to end.
I keep looking for words ending in -ain, to see if they can transcribe the infinitives of verbs, but a doubt assails me about their number.
I don't know the total number of words in Q13 and Q20, the 1600 infinitives, isn't that too many?
Searching the text for words ending in -ain and the conjugation of the verbs I believe to be associated with it, I learned that there is also the ending -oun for verbs, including infinitives. This ending can, in my opinion, be transcribed in voynichese as -oiin. It is certainly worth examining this kind of words to see if they can correspond to verbs.
Another discovery (for me, of course, not for those who had the chance to learn ancient Greek), the ending -an, designates the infinitive of certain verbs.
As I told you, I have my doubts, but this book could be useful to you
Traut, Georg
Lexikon ueber die Formen der griechischen Verba ( 1867 )
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Thank you very much, Helmut!
I'll have a look through the pages to see if there are any things that don't exist in LSJ.
I found a list of Greek endings.
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On the list of Greek endings there is also the ending -αιν with some examples:
- Genitive and dative dual of first-declension nouns: ῐ̓δέᾱ, ῐ̓δέαιν.
- Feminine genitive and dative dual of all adjectives with first-declension feminines: ᾰ̓γᾰθός, ᾰ̓γᾰθαῖν; βᾰρῠ́, βᾰρείαιν.
It is therefore in our interest to check regularly whether the voynechese word ending in -ain is a verb with the ending -ειν or rather a noun or adjective with the ending -αιν.