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I just played with color once more, and the word next to this "bucorum" appears to be "he*", where the "*" stands for something like m or g. What would such abbreviation expand to?

These are very common symbols in languages that use Latin scribal abbreviations.

The symbols shaped like EVA-m and EVA-g are frequently used for the abbreviations -ris, -tis, and -cis. Almost every manuscript has them, and they are mostly at the ends of words. They are sometimes also line or paragraph-end markers and sometimes used as etc (although usually at the ends of paragraphs rather than in the middle, as in "and so on" (similar to osv. in Nordic)).


Some examples:



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A few scribes use this abbreviation unconventionally, as suffix "-em" but that is rare, and it's really just a lazy way of writing the more conventional z-shaped "-em". Most scribes use them as -ris/-tis/-cis.


All three shapes are in the VMS, which is one of the reasons I created my own transcript, since transcripts that interpret EVA-m and EVA-g as the same shape (and ignore the third shape) are misleading.