(29-03-2018, 11:37 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It looks like that champions of "alternate repetitions" are (at least judging by the King's Bible) function words. However, the problem with this interpretation is that the Voynichese champions of "alternate repetitions" are, at the same time, featured in sequential repetitions. And, while qokain is featured in a sequential repetition just once (f77v line 30), daiin is the champion of sequential repetitions, being featured in 21 repetitions of that sort.
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What function word would be naturally repeated with itself? I can think only of repetitions across the border of a sentence, like: "Where do they come from? From the forest they come."
Thank you, Anton!
I agree that these alternating patterns are still connected with reduplication (see also Wladimir's examples).
The case of "qokain" is somehow different, because "alternation" is markedly more frequent than reduplication, but even in this case, reduplication cannot be ignored.
You ask: What function word would be naturally repeated with itself?
This depends on the language. In Italian, the first example I can think of is "così così", which corresponds to the English "so so" (I am not sure the English is acceptable, in the written or spoken language). But I believe the three languages I discussed above (Latin, Italian and English) can only show that these phenomena are very variable, also within the same language. However extended this variability, evidence does not support the idea of a close relationship between Voynichese and any of these languages. I believe we must search for parallels elsewhere.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (originally on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) that Romani / Romany reduplicates its conjunction "taj / thaj" (apparently, one of the most frequent words in that language).
Another example appears You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:
Me meresch te genel taj taj pisinel kamahi,
I wanted to learn to read and write so much, (google translated from German)
"genel" means "reading", "pisinel" means "writing"
Possibly, the intensifier "so much" corresponds to the Romani reduplication.
I am sure Romani cannot be the only language that reduplicates its conjunction. More research is definitely needed.