Syllabification

[Helmut Winkler]

My understanding is that, in an abbreviated text, words (abbreviated) do represent words (unabbreviated). Like, when I write the (abbreviated) word "89", that represents the (unabbreviated) word "Deus".

Is not that correct?

No, not really. When you write abbreviated de or ds, it is unabbreviated deus (or can be something else, e.g. in the case of ds dominus, depends on the context). The two possible ways of abbreviating a word are suspension or contraction. I am talking of a medieval European text, of course, to make that clear.