Voynich anagramming

[Torsten]

Thanks, Torsten. There are a lot of very rare occurrences in there, so I wonder whether many of these cases aren't the result of some form of noise rather than structural anagramming possibilities.

The frequency counts are in some way predictable. For instance beside [chedy] the type [dchey] exists and beside [shedy] exists the type [dshey]. Therefore I wouldn't dismiss rare word types as noise, even if it might be a god idea to check for transcription errors for them. On the other hand I would also argue that the examples didn't point to structural anagramming. 

In my eyes something else is happening here. Beside [dchey] and [dshey] also the words [chey] and [shey] exists. Therefore I would explain [dchey] as [d + chey] and [dshey] as [d + shey]. In the same way the word type [daiin] exists beside [aiin] and the type [dal] beside [al] (see also Table 3 in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 2020, p. 8). It is often possible to decompose Voynich words into more frequently used word types or particles. Note that also hapax legomena can often "be seen as concatenations of more frequent words (e.g. [polcheolkain] = [pol] + [cheol] + [kain])" (Timm & Schinner 2020, p. 6). This would mean anagrams occur because Voynichese are composed from smaller parts.