reading [y] as a null character

[geoffreycaveney]

It doesn't have to represent any kind of suffix. In languages that use Latin scribal abbreviations, a single abbreviation can represent 3 or 4 different endings. It can still be read. Maybe this can be stretched to 5 or 6 if the ones it represents are similar to the ones that are traditional.

I'm ok with that. But any theory employing such an analysis will have to be very specific about precisely which endings can be represented by such an abbreviation.