geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

[ReneZ]

Marco picks out a good example, which is worth looking at from the MS author's perspective.
The last four words of the proposed Greek meaning are:

monos thorsos thelei eros

Three words end in -os, but in the Judaeo-Greek version all three are treated differently:

monus tors thal Ars

this then leads to Voynichese:

Sholdy sory cKhar ory

Note also that the second and third word both started with 'th', but these two become in the end:


s...  cKh..


Also, the introduction of the Aleph character allows for a great amount of free choice, in two steps. There are six of them in the Judaeo-Greek version. These allow the following mapping, in order:

e  ->  A  -> a
o  ->  A  -> a
a  ->  A  -> a
e  ->  A  -> a
e  ->  A  -> a
e  ->  A  -> o

A fundamental problem with this Aleph character is that it would only be needed for any vowel that is not immediately following a consonant. This is because the points are normally written below any consonant, not just Aleph.

So, for example, the second word 'stoma' would be written 'stm' with points below the t and the m. No Aleph.

The first word 'esti' would be 'Ast' with points below the Aleph and the t. Here, the 'i' character in the reading 'Aist' that ends up being a ch comes out of nowhere.