14-04-2021, 05:19 PM
For those who are interested, I have collected my list of possible connections between Voynich ms text frequent vords and Middle English common function words and other logical common words, in the format of a draft document, which is the attachment to this post.
I have added notes about the frequency positions of the Voynich vords in the bathing women section, the two parts of the final section (called "Stars-B" and "Stars-Bio" in the source link to follow), the Dialect A (main) part of the herbal section, the Dialect B (smaller) part of the herbal section, and the pharmaceutical section. The source for these frequency statistics by section is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on Rene's site.
The most interesting new observation in the attached draft document is the following: Readers may have noticed in my proposed correspondences that both EVA [d] and EVA [l] represent Middle English "s", for example in [chedy] = "yes" ; [-dy] suffix = "-s" ; [-edy] suffix = "-es" ; [daiin] = "so" ; but also [ol] = "us" ; [-ol] suffix = "-ous" ; and [chol] = "jus".
Here is my hypothesis to explain the representation of Middle English "s" by both EVA [d] and EVA [l] :
"Hypothesis: EVA [d] and EVA [l] characters are two different forms of "s". This may possibly be compared to the now archaic "long s" ("ſ") and now standard "short s" ("s") forms of "s" in English. Observe that EVA [l] is more frequent in word-final position, and EVA [d] is more frequent in other positions, consistent with the formerly common practice of "short s" in word-final position and "long s" in most other positions in English. For those who are not already well familiar with the actual forms of the Voynich ms text characters, EVA [d] is a tall character and EVA [l] is a short character."
Geoffrey C.
I have added notes about the frequency positions of the Voynich vords in the bathing women section, the two parts of the final section (called "Stars-B" and "Stars-Bio" in the source link to follow), the Dialect A (main) part of the herbal section, the Dialect B (smaller) part of the herbal section, and the pharmaceutical section. The source for these frequency statistics by section is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on Rene's site.
The most interesting new observation in the attached draft document is the following: Readers may have noticed in my proposed correspondences that both EVA [d] and EVA [l] represent Middle English "s", for example in [chedy] = "yes" ; [-dy] suffix = "-s" ; [-edy] suffix = "-es" ; [daiin] = "so" ; but also [ol] = "us" ; [-ol] suffix = "-ous" ; and [chol] = "jus".
Here is my hypothesis to explain the representation of Middle English "s" by both EVA [d] and EVA [l] :
"Hypothesis: EVA [d] and EVA [l] characters are two different forms of "s". This may possibly be compared to the now archaic "long s" ("ſ") and now standard "short s" ("s") forms of "s" in English. Observe that EVA [l] is more frequent in word-final position, and EVA [d] is more frequent in other positions, consistent with the formerly common practice of "short s" in word-final position and "long s" in most other positions in English. For those who are not already well familiar with the actual forms of the Voynich ms text characters, EVA [d] is a tall character and EVA [l] is a short character."
Geoffrey C.