frequent Voynich vords in Slavic VCI and West Slavic languages

[geoffreycaveney]

I am not opposed to making an effort to read some lines and attempt to interpret them

Wasn't that the goal of all these transformations?

Yes, of course that is the ultimate goal. But a premature and mistaken reading of some particular line or lines, even if the overall system is largely correct, is not necessarily the most productive way to make progress. Nevertheless, I am working on a few such lines and I will be happy to post here when I have an interpretation that I feel is worth sharing. 

In the Sorbian interpretation, another complicating factor to consider is the possible presence and influence of some German dialect in the ms text. The Sorbian people live in southeastern Germany: The growing and spreading influence of German in the region, along with the receding area and influence of Sorbian, is a process that has been proceeding since the 10th century. Already by the early 15th century any educated Sorbian speaker would very likely be familiar with and influenced by German. It would be expected that German words, labels, expressions, etc., would make their way into a text written primarily in Sorbian. 

For example, note that I was unable to find a promising Sorbian/Czech word for EVA [dar] = Slavic VCI <cal>. It now occurs to me that this vord may represent the German word "Zahl", which is pronounced /tsa:l/, would be spelled "cal" in phonemic Sorbian or Czech, and means 'number'. Just as we use symbols and abbreviations such as "#" and "No." to represent the word "number", so it may have been natural for a 15th century author of a Sorbian manuscript to use the familiar German word "Zahl" to mean "number", rather than using a Sorbian word.