Can VM be written in vowelless Latin?

[farmerjohn]

Well, you mostly repeated the same definitions I mentioned upthread, but you didn't explain how you got from those words to the translations, which was really what I was more interested in.



farmerjohn wrote: "caudic.āri.ūrus - from caudex, "trunk of a tree". A wouldn't trust this interpretation too much, but there is another place where this translation looks plausible'

Actually, this one has a rational origin. Tree trunks were used to make boats, originally canoes. Similarly derived words later were applied to merchant ships, barges, and the bargemen who worked on them.

JKP, I mean that caudic.āri.ūrus="trunk of a tree", not only caudex  

As for translation, I try to determine for each word which part of a speech it is, then use the fact that verb and adjective usually go after noun (definitely except for beginning of sentence which should start with gallow)