Quote:MarcoP: Yet JKP says the Latin -is abbreviation is normally word-final, so this could either be a counter example about the correlation between Voynich and Latin glyph positions or suggest that the gallows are not related with this abbreviation. I have no definite opinion at the moment.
I don't have a definite opinion yet either. There are quite a few possibilities. If the gallows are inspired by Greek, for example, EVA-t might be inspired by Pi, which was sometimes drawn with dots, hooks, or little loops on both sides.
On a related matter (the loop on the left), this is something I've posted in the past, but it's relevant to this topic, as it shows another possible inspiration for the loop on the left side of gallows characters. There is also the possibility that the gallows characters are internally inspired by existing VMS shapes:
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