24-03-2016, 05:10 PM
(24-03-2016, 04:24 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(24-03-2016, 04:05 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Anton, I argue that those labels do refer to the plant name in the first place, but also approach the name of the mnemonic image. The mnemonics are just that: a trick to remember this difficult foreign plant name.
Actually it would be easier if they did not refer to the plant name. E.g. consider Fig. 1 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. otol is one of "Voynich stars", it is also a plant label, and it is also encountered in some other contexts. Too many for a plant's name, isn't it?
That would be a bit of a problem if we were operating within one language. However, the presence of linguistic memory hints in these plants indicates that their labels are actually their foreign names, i.e. the names they are called in their local context. I would read this otol as /tos/ or /dos/, very short words which can easily be a plant name in one language and something entirely different in the "Voynich native tongue" if such a thing exists.