21-03-2017, 03:10 AM
(21-03-2017, 12:42 AM)Searcher wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I've edited this line a little.
The third word looks like *o**fer, I almost sure that the second letter is "o", therefore it could be "voti'fer" or "votyfer", "poti'fer" or "potyfer", "roti'/ufer", "rotpfer[]", "roepfer". I'm still not sure about the first letter, whether it has a bar at the bottom or it doesn't.
The third letter was corrected, maybe the scribe began to write "rop...". but then amended this into "roe...". As I correctly understand from German, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a person (a woman?) predicting labour (birth pangs). You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is only one source, where I found this word, so I can't understand, when it was used first. Earlier examples of the same etymology are You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (a woman-caller or a crier, a caller).
I'm not sure about that first letter either. It looks a bit like the Veeish letter in the previous word and something like a "p", which is the same problem with the shapes on the last line. There are shapes that look like "v" but also look like "p" with the descender wiped out. It also looks a bit like an Anglo-Saxon "r".
And the third letter in "umen" is ambiguous, as well.
But the last three letters read to me like "pfer" and it would not be unusual for someone in the medieval ages to drop the "d" from the end of pferd if they were writing the word horse, considering how things were often spelled, and also because it's sometimes spoken that way, without the "d" being completely distinct. There are dialects in parts of Germany and Scandinavia where they characteristically drop the last sound from many words, just as many Americans say, "I'm goin' ridin',"—the ending "g" isn't pronounced at all.

