21-09-2017, 10:26 AM
(20-09-2017, 09:43 AM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Let us constrain our thoughts to this one page, taken in isolation from the corpus (f104r), and examine how these words function solely on this page, without regard to the corpus.
We take the most common word, chol <chol>:
Beside the 14 instances of [*chol*] also other common glyph groups exists on page f104r. For instance [*ol*] did occur 57 times and [*aiin] 60 times on page f104r. [ol] and [aiin] also occur without any prefix or suffix group. [ol] occurs 5 times and [aiin] 7 times. This is comparable to the 6 instances of [chol] and 4 instances of [chey].
[ol] is also part of [chol]. With other words it is possible to split [chol] into a prefix group [ch] and a suffix or root group [ol]. Moreover [ol] is also used as prefix. See for instance [olcheol], [olcheear], [olkeedy], [olkeechey], [olkeeody], [olkchedy], [olkeechy] ...
It is far from easy to define what a prefix or suffix or root word is for the VMS.