(18-04-2017, 05:02 AM)voynichbombe wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
If we are looking at german abbreviations adopted from latin scribal practice, they expand differently from latin abbreviations.
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Yes, this is true for all languages. German, Spanish, French, Italian, and English scribes all co-opted the Latin abbreviation styles and shapes, but they used them for whatever purpose worked with their language if the Latin meaning didn't fit their grammar or spelling.
Thus, a glyph that represents the common suffix "-um" in Latin might mean "-en" or "-er" or something else in another language.