[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

[Anton]

Thx for your comments. I'm afraid we already wander off-topic from the "Voynich tasks", so I'll move the later posts into a separate thread shortly.

The important thing in the interpretation of the letters is that if we assume that such-and-such words are written by the same hand, then the respective characters need to be written in more or less consistent way. In other words, if you propose something to be an "f", then this character should be interpreted as "f" in other instances too. (This is a general notice, not related to your reading "faß" specifically).

As for faß - is it OK for FNHD to have "f" in the begiining of words? In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there is not a single word beginning with "f"!

If you're reading the first two words in Line 0 as "pox leber", that could be the Bavarian or Alemannic form of the now-standard "Bocks Leber" (goat's liver)

In fact, the "goat liver" interpretation has been dominant through the years of Voynich studies; what I proposed is to shift from this predominance to another interpretation, since, in my opinion, the animal does not look like a goat, neither the bulbous object - like a liver.

he rest of the line is too ambiguous to pin down - a few letters are clear, but I can't propose any meaning.

Ay, there's the rub... This could be a good object for an attack that Koen proposed, suppose that we limit the language to "German" variants.