frequent Voynich vords in Slavic VCI and West Slavic languages

[geoffreycaveney]

That’s going out on kind of a slender limb, then, to allow this degree of freedom.

Let me be blunt: I was breaking my own rules of my own system to give you the quick speculative guess of the "without you" meaning for <béz bas>. I hope my system as a whole is not judged by this one possible little mistake of mine. I will try to be more careful. 

Have you tried sorting the words of a Czech or Sorbian text from the Middle Ages by frequency rank order, converting this using your model to Voynichese, and seeing if words (well, vords at this point) occur with any regularity in the VMs? If so, do they seem to occur in similar line, paragraph, and page contexts as they do in your Slavic codex? Things should start looking pretty promising on these fronts pretty quickly, if this model is worth exploring and refining further.

That would be an excellent research project for me to investigate. But keep in mind that there are many different types of medieval texts, and some may match more closely with the Voynich ms text, while others may not. The classic examples of written Czech in the time period of the Voynich ms would be the works of Jan Hus. But Hus was not writing herbals or pharmacological manuals or recipe collections or astrological / cosmological works or stories about bathing naked women. Still, the comparison of word frequency ranks could be of general interest and relevance.