(07-07-2026, 11:25 PM)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.AEDM may come from MADE, DAME, MEAD or EDAM (kind of cheese).
By the way, there is a possibility that some VMS words are the same anagrams. Let's take the word
chodaiin as an example.
chodaiin is sometimes found in Botany, Pharmacy, Recipes, and also once in Zodiac. On f89r1, there is the word
ararchodaiin to the right of the root. It differs only in
arar at the beginning (by the way, I believe that these are 2 letters, not 4, i.e.
ar-ar). It seems to me that the case of this word is too similar to those examples of anagrams that I have shown. There is a possibility that
chodaiin in Zodiac and
chodaiin in botany are completely different words, but the ruthless Voynichese turned them into indistinguishable anagrams.
The example of
ararchodaiin is also similar to an anagram - when letters are distributed, two identical letters (in our case
ar) in the anagram will go in a row (as in the word MORNING - GIMNNOR).
(07-07-2026, 11:25 PM)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.At this moment you are already unable in many cases to reconstruct the original word.
But simple anagrams can be guessed from the context. For example, your example with MADE:
EDAM A EKAC
RYEV AYSTT EDAM
In the first case EDAM = MADE, A EKAC (A CAKE) tells about this.
In the second cade EDAM = EDAM, RYEV AYSTT (VERY TASTY) also tells about this.
Having the context, it will become much easier to guess the problematic anagram, and VMS has it - we have both images and text (most likely, meaningful and coherent).
