Old Polish (geoffreycaveney's theory)
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Dear swigut and Gab19,

I sincerely thank you for your honest feedback about my work as native Polish speakers. I appreciate your feedback very much.

If you do not mind, in the attachment to this message I have uploaded a document presenting one more attempt at an Old Polish interpretation of a completely different passage of the Voynich manuscript text. I interpret it as more traditional content than the passage I posted previously in this thread, so perhaps it may be easier for readers to comprehend. In the attached document, I include the original EVA transcription of the passage, my own "Slavic VCI" reading of it, my Old Polish interpretation of it, my English interpretation of it, and finally a complete "Voynichese-Old Polish-English glossary" of every word and word form that I interpret in this passage. In my Old Polish interpretation I have included 39 footnotes to explain my Old Polish readings in modern Polish. 

The passage consists of all four rings of text around the diagram in folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 4. The word that drew my attention to this particular passage was EVA [odsheo], which reads perfectly in my Slavic VCI system as "grzech" ('sin'). The surrounding phrase [pchedar odsheo qody] reads in Slavic VCI as "Przecal grzech nc#", which matches rather closely with the Polish phrase "przeciął grzech nić", or "grzech przeciął nić", which seems to be a completely natural and comprehensible Polish phrase in a religious context meaning 'sin has cut the thread'. In footnote 2 of my attached document I include an example of the use of this exact phrase in a modern Polish religious passage.

I did this work last fall and just decided to let it sit for a while. But now with a couple of native Polish speakers and readers on the forum, I am posting this work of mine in case they find it more useful than the other passage that I posted and discussed previously in this thread. 

I suppose that today I need to add an explicit disclaimer stating that the posting of this message on the date April 1st is purely a coincidence, on a day when I happen to have some free time to post this, and this is certainly not intended as any kind of "April Fools' Day" hoax post or document. It required far too much work for such a thing. It may be right or wrong, but it is sincere.

Geoffrey


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