The Voynich Ninja

(02-02-2025, 09:09 AM)Dobri Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The symbol sequence c'heody appears 49 times in the manuscript and has prefixes 15 times...

There are also 4 occurrences with a similar benched symbol (highlighted in green in the attached image).

(01-02-2025, 10:45 PM)Ruby Novacna Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

(01-02-2025, 07:56 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What about the word for Moon:  c'heody

And could meanings like "shaded", "shady" or "in the shadows" be suitable?

It is unknown whether the symbol sequence c'heody is concerned directly with the Moon or has some other meaning (if any).
Therefore, exploring other choices could possibly reveal more information about the lunar folios.

(02-02-2025, 09:32 AM)Dobri Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

(01-02-2025, 10:45 PM)Ruby Novacna Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

(01-02-2025, 07:56 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What about the word for Moon:  c'heody

And could meanings like "shaded", "shady" or "in the shadows" be suitable?

It is unknown whether the symbol sequence c'heody is concerned directly with the Moon or has some other meaning (if any).
Therefore, exploring other choices could possibly reveal more information about the lunar folios.

In fact, there are good reasons to doubt that the Voynich 'words' (vords)  represent words in a plain text.
That just means that, if one cannot match Sheody to moon, there is no reason to despair.

The attached image shows an extract from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (circa 1300) which contains You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. similar to some of the benched symbols in the cipher manuscript.
Notice also the bench-like connected letters in the middle of the Greek text.

Here is an example of the Greek ligature You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Ȣ which when turned looks similar to the manuscript symbol in the attached image.

A symbol that resembles a Latin You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. letter ɔ occurs 7 times in the cipher manuscript (see the fifth symbol in the attached image) and does not seem to have a Greek equivalent (except for a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. diacritical mark ◌̓).

The symbol string eody does not form a distinct word token (vord) and is always preceded by another symbol.

@Ruby
The speculation about the word for moon developed from Posts #26 - 28 of this thread.

@ Dobri
Thanks. Considering that the phases of the moon were thought to be relevant to plant harvesting etc., this is not too surprising. With just a quick look for repeating vords +/- 1 from  c'heody, I see dain /8am used four times preceding, but there are ten examples where c'heody  is the first vord in the line.

(02-02-2025, 06:44 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....there are ten examples where c'heody  is the first vord in the line.

Indeed, and for all five occurrences where c'heody is also in the first vord of a paragraph, the p gallow is seen as the first prefix symbol.

On a side note, here is a description of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and its ancient Greek origin.