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That's a convincing parallel. So to paraphrase, there is a very high chance that this word is luc...m or buc....m where the dots are anything over one letter?

If you'll accept awkward language mixing it could be mallier aller bucorum, painter of all books. But that's a stretch grammar wise, like some German - Latin pidgin.

I've seen a number of manuscripts that are a mix between Latin and German (usually what happens is that it is mostly Latin with a few German words here and there).

I have also seen some that look like Latin at first glance but turn out to be Middle French, but... leaning slightly more toward the French than the Latin. These are disconcerting. My brain wants to go into one language or the other and it doesn't work, you have to context switch several times per line.


So... a few German words mixed with Latin is not uncommon but the French ones are not a word here and there, they are more of a blend. I was wondering why and then realized the explanation might be fairly simple... Middle French is closer to Latin than Middle German is to Latin, so blending perhaps happens more naturally.