Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

The most common expansion for c'z (with the z being a rotated m symbol and the apostrophe being the line, the macron) would be -cem, -corem, or -corum. It can be other things too, whatever fits the context, but these would be the most common. The rotated "m" usually stands for "m" with 1, 2 or 3 (or more) letters between it and the preceding letter.

I continue to believe that your z (rotated m) is a collapsed, colored-in version of the EVA symbol m . This symbol combines the EVA symbol i with the EVA symbol l and then adds a tail, similar to how the Roman number for 3, iii, is sometimes written with a tail: iij. Like the Latin j, this symbol is often found at the end of words written in a left to right direction. More importantly, it's also in the transliteration alphabet on f57v.

Let's have another look at the entire word and concentrate on the first letter:



You see the letter l there and I see a letter P or p. But I also see a clue that the second letter under the bar is a m because, like the m, this l or p has a backward leaning i (the EVA symbol i) at its base. Four other l's in that marginalia have no such base.

Please confirm that you are able to see EVA symbols in this post so that I can continue to use them. The matter of whether those are Latin letters or EVA symbols under the bar is surely important for decoding the VMS.