23-03-2019, 12:07 AM
As a brief initial look at what these Zodiac month and day charts may read like, here is a possible reading of a couple labels in the inner ring of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 1.
General comment: I think most of these small daily labels are going to read a lot like a kind of "physician's shorthand". In other words, an awful lot of abbreviation. Keep that in mind as you consider the following interpretations:
label: [otalaiin]
my reading: "ok-aman"
interpretation: "okh aima(n)", meaning "no blood"
Beautiful idiomatic grammatical Greek it's not. But as a simple physician's shorthand, for someone who knew how to read this script, it would be completely comprehensible to a Greek speaker and reader, which is all that was necessary for a physician's guide.
The "-n" at the end is not standard grammatical Greek of any form of "aima" in any well-known standard dialect, but that doesn't mean that some dialect of medieval Greek couldn't have said "aiman" for the accusative singular, for example. Many Greek nouns with the "-a" ending did have "-an" as the accusative singular ending, even if that was not the classical declension of this word "aima".
next label: [oteo alols araly]
my reading: "okiA amAnt alans"
(recall that in my Judaeo-Greek hypothesis, [o] or [a] can represent the equivalent of Hebrew aleph, which can be the placeholder letter where Greek has various vowels)
interpretation: "okhi aima(n)t alla(n)s", meaning "no blood(s) other(s)".
Of course, again, this is just physician's shorthand. The full meaning, I suppose, would have been something like "no blood or other procedures".
Again, the "n"s in these forms are not standard grammatical Greek, but again, a mere "n" in such places in such endings is the kind of thing that can easily arise in a non-standard dialect of a language.
Physician's shorthand is not thrilling reading! It is what it is.
Geoffrey
General comment: I think most of these small daily labels are going to read a lot like a kind of "physician's shorthand". In other words, an awful lot of abbreviation. Keep that in mind as you consider the following interpretations:
label: [otalaiin]
my reading: "ok-aman"
interpretation: "okh aima(n)", meaning "no blood"
Beautiful idiomatic grammatical Greek it's not. But as a simple physician's shorthand, for someone who knew how to read this script, it would be completely comprehensible to a Greek speaker and reader, which is all that was necessary for a physician's guide.
The "-n" at the end is not standard grammatical Greek of any form of "aima" in any well-known standard dialect, but that doesn't mean that some dialect of medieval Greek couldn't have said "aiman" for the accusative singular, for example. Many Greek nouns with the "-a" ending did have "-an" as the accusative singular ending, even if that was not the classical declension of this word "aima".
next label: [oteo alols araly]
my reading: "okiA amAnt alans"
(recall that in my Judaeo-Greek hypothesis, [o] or [a] can represent the equivalent of Hebrew aleph, which can be the placeholder letter where Greek has various vowels)
interpretation: "okhi aima(n)t alla(n)s", meaning "no blood(s) other(s)".
Of course, again, this is just physician's shorthand. The full meaning, I suppose, would have been something like "no blood or other procedures".
Again, the "n"s in these forms are not standard grammatical Greek, but again, a mere "n" in such places in such endings is the kind of thing that can easily arise in a non-standard dialect of a language.
Physician's shorthand is not thrilling reading! It is what it is.
Geoffrey
