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After reading your post, I really wonder what qo- prefix and o-prefix might be. If o is a vowel, Arabic definite article al- and Spanish el seems to be a possible candidate, for it appear at beginning of words frequently. But simply being definite article cannot explain their high correlation with reduplication as in your post. However, I really know nothing about those Arabic or Spanish, so I cannot say anything more.
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You will find that the ot prefix is especially prevalent in the zodiac and cosmology sections of the VMS, which is interesting because a high proportion of star names were adapted from Arabic into western languages (and begin with al). It has not been easy, however, to try to match them up with Arabic star names because of the extreme repetition of short syllables in these sections. Arabic star names can be quite similar to each other, but not as similar as VMS tokens, so IF the VMS "labels" in these sections are star names, there is something else is going on, because these portions are also very repetitious in a number of ways.


It's also noteworthy that "o" is an article in Greek. It's a masculine article, but if someone were creating a language or cipher, or were simplifying the grammar, "o" could easily be used as a generic article.