03-04-2021, 10:35 PM
I now have a reading and interpretation of the five lines of text beginning at the 7th star on folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . Thus it appears immediately prior to the passage in the message above that begins at the 8th star on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . It appears to begin with a similar theme (a person cutting wood), but it tells a different and separate story. Thus each star seems to represent a different little mini-story.
I must say I am glad to now be interpreting what I regard as more "neutral" content and subject matter, which I think may be easier to comprehend, analyze, and discuss.
Once again I have made every effort to interpret words in this passage as consistently as possible with the same or very similar words in the other passages that I have interpreted. However, the nature of the writing system does create some homonymous words and roots that are different from each other. (That is, the words or roots are written the same or similarly in the Voynich writing system, but they represent different Old Polish / Silesian words or roots.)
EVA:
[tshedar chllo rl shed kchedy chokor cheedy opchar cheor chckhey taiin dam
ol sheo ckhey chol kechdy okeedal lkain chol keeody otchor aiir chol kar alol
daiin char qotal okechol olkeeor olkeeodal lkaiin chalkeeedy qokam
sar okair chckhey qodaiin chckhy checkhd l raiin otain ar aisam
shar sheey kar sheody]
Slavic VCI:
<przecal issch ls rzec ćec# jdw jéc# Bial jew iće# po cás
z rzech će# iz teic# dékas sto iz tég# biw ál iz tal asz
co jal mas deiz zdéw zdégas sto jastéc# nás
ral dál iće# nco ić# jećc s lo bo al árás
rzal rzé# tal rzeg#>
Old Polish/Silesian:
'Przeciał jeszcze las, rzecz czek(a), żdę, jest bijał ją iście po czas(ie)
z rzeczy, (i)ście iz tych, dekarstwo iz tego bywał, iż dałaś
co żal masz? deżdż zde? ż[e] dekarstwo je st(rz)ec nas
ra[czy]ł dał iście, nocą iśc[ie] jest słaby, ale raz
żął że, dał, rzekł'
English:
'he still cut wood, he awaits the word/thing/item, he waits, he beat it indeed for a while
from the thing/item, indeed from these, the roofing appeared from this, that you gave
why do you have sorrow? the rain here? the roofing is to protect us
he gladly gave indeed, at night indeed he is tired, but once
he reaped, he gave, he said'
The word which requires particular commentary in this passage is dekarstwo. It is indeed a Polish word meaning 'roofing', and the word is borrowed from the German root of the word Decke 'roof'. This word and root is attested in German going back to the 8th century, so it seems to be fully plausible that speakers of West Slavic dialects in regions neighboring German-speaking regions could have borrowed this root and word and formed Slavic derivatives of it such as dekarstwo by the 14th century. It may or may not actually be attested as such in extant West Slavic texts until a later date, but this may well have more to do with the lack of existing texts about such subject matter dating back to this time period, rather than the lack of the actual word in spoken West Slavic dialects in this time period.
As for the representation of this word dekarstwo in the Voynich writing system (as I interpret it in the Slavic VCI system) as <dekas-sto>, this may be seen as comparable to, for example, the representation of the Greek word spermon as "pe-mo" in the Linear B writing system. In fact my Slavic VCI renderings are rather more faithful to the actual Old Polish / Silesian words that they represent, than the Linear B written forms are to the actual Greek words that they represent. But it is a reasonable comparison and may help readers comprehend and make sense of the differences between the Slavic VCI versions and the Old Polish / Silesian words.
Geoffrey
I must say I am glad to now be interpreting what I regard as more "neutral" content and subject matter, which I think may be easier to comprehend, analyze, and discuss.
Once again I have made every effort to interpret words in this passage as consistently as possible with the same or very similar words in the other passages that I have interpreted. However, the nature of the writing system does create some homonymous words and roots that are different from each other. (That is, the words or roots are written the same or similarly in the Voynich writing system, but they represent different Old Polish / Silesian words or roots.)
EVA:
[tshedar chllo rl shed kchedy chokor cheedy opchar cheor chckhey taiin dam
ol sheo ckhey chol kechdy okeedal lkain chol keeody otchor aiir chol kar alol
daiin char qotal okechol olkeeor olkeeodal lkaiin chalkeeedy qokam
sar okair chckhey qodaiin chckhy checkhd l raiin otain ar aisam
shar sheey kar sheody]
Slavic VCI:
<przecal issch ls rzec ćec# jdw jéc# Bial jew iće# po cás
z rzech će# iz teic# dékas sto iz tég# biw ál iz tal asz
co jal mas deiz zdéw zdégas sto jastéc# nás
ral dál iće# nco ić# jećc s lo bo al árás
rzal rzé# tal rzeg#>
Old Polish/Silesian:
'Przeciał jeszcze las, rzecz czek(a), żdę, jest bijał ją iście po czas(ie)
z rzeczy, (i)ście iz tych, dekarstwo iz tego bywał, iż dałaś
co żal masz? deżdż zde? ż[e] dekarstwo je st(rz)ec nas
ra[czy]ł dał iście, nocą iśc[ie] jest słaby, ale raz
żął że, dał, rzekł'
English:
'he still cut wood, he awaits the word/thing/item, he waits, he beat it indeed for a while
from the thing/item, indeed from these, the roofing appeared from this, that you gave
why do you have sorrow? the rain here? the roofing is to protect us
he gladly gave indeed, at night indeed he is tired, but once
he reaped, he gave, he said'
The word which requires particular commentary in this passage is dekarstwo. It is indeed a Polish word meaning 'roofing', and the word is borrowed from the German root of the word Decke 'roof'. This word and root is attested in German going back to the 8th century, so it seems to be fully plausible that speakers of West Slavic dialects in regions neighboring German-speaking regions could have borrowed this root and word and formed Slavic derivatives of it such as dekarstwo by the 14th century. It may or may not actually be attested as such in extant West Slavic texts until a later date, but this may well have more to do with the lack of existing texts about such subject matter dating back to this time period, rather than the lack of the actual word in spoken West Slavic dialects in this time period.
As for the representation of this word dekarstwo in the Voynich writing system (as I interpret it in the Slavic VCI system) as <dekas-sto>, this may be seen as comparable to, for example, the representation of the Greek word spermon as "pe-mo" in the Linear B writing system. In fact my Slavic VCI renderings are rather more faithful to the actual Old Polish / Silesian words that they represent, than the Linear B written forms are to the actual Greek words that they represent. But it is a reasonable comparison and may help readers comprehend and make sense of the differences between the Slavic VCI versions and the Old Polish / Silesian words.
Geoffrey