Identifying function words

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Another exception is 55r, where the two stars are separated by one vord, and that vord is daiin. I think that daiin is unlikely to stand for "and", simply because it occurs as the last vord of a folio, and also there are cases where daiin is repeated sequentially.

I am not sure reduplication is a problem.

I have seen examples of the Romani conjunction thaj been reduplicated thaj thaj. I believe the reduplicated form could mean "and also" but I have been unable to find confirmation. This was discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

The Latin conjunction atque is made of the sequence of two conjunctions at+que. Of course, this is not reduplication, but it hints to the possible meaningfulness of conjunction reduplication.

daiin is the most frequent word in Voynichese. It is not far-fetched to consider that it could represent two or more homographs. For instance, the Italian short word "di" has at least three completely independent meanings (a preposition meaning 'of', the imperative of "dire"='speak', an archaic term for 'day').