What are labels?

[Mark Knowles]

What celestial body (Sun and Moon excluded) in what language could serve so many purposes at once?

Finding one manuscript where that is the case does not mean the probability overall that a label is an adjective is not very small.

Given that the VMS is in itself a work which is by no means commonplace, I would shun conclusions derived from commonplaсe analogies.

As other people are aware of, those are exactly the kinds of things that I have observed and I have my own explanation for them. Namely that the Voynich contains "filler" text which conforms to a certain structure. So words like otol, okol, otor, okor... are essentially what I term "null" words. Since I first learnt about repeated words I suspected that they were fillers. So I stand somewhere between the people who think all the text in the Voynich is nonsense and people who think none of the text in the Voynich is nonsense. I think some is meaningful and some meaningless. Anyway if we put such "otol" like words to one side we have a number of unusually rare words, such as we find with plant labels, and the question is then how we explain those as adjectives or numbers.