Suggestions for decomposition of the Voynichese characters

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Now, looking at these mappings, one can recognize that it is not shapes g and m as such that are abbreviations, but the tail loop exclusively. Namely, the loop means "-is" and is then appended to the previous letter. If the letter is "t", the result is "-tis". If the letter is "c", this yields "-cis". And so on.
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You can add the "is" loop to anything, even in the middle of the word, although it is mostly at the ends of words and ris/cis shapes are also sometimes used as line or paragraph-end markers. In the VMS, the -is abbreviation is not just added to r/c/t, it is added to other glyphs, as well. I think I've posted some of them. Here are a couple of examples of g+is from manuscripts:

   


The "-is" loop is also sometimes used to mean "-em" as in "Item" if scribes don't want to add the "z"-shaped wiggle (which is actually a sideways "m"). This is the one that looks like EVA-k (in Latin it's tis or tem):

   



There are also "dis" abbreviations (d + is). But they are not quite as common as ris/tis/cis.