19-04-2021, 04:03 AM
f65r is the page with only three words of text on it, by the bottom left leaf, near the root of the plant
EVA:
[otaim dam alam]
reading by my provisional Middle English correspondences:
"fo[?] si[?] isi[?]"
(in line with [otol] = "fous", [aror sheey] = "irour thee~", and function words I have discussed in the "problematic...Germanic" thread, beginning on page 3 of that thread)
I researched Middle English words for which such words would all have the same final letter, and found the following:
"fob sib isib"
Middle English fob "cheat, trickster, deceiver"
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Middle English sib "related by blood or marriage; of a branch or bough: of kin to (the root), linked"
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Middle English isib "related, akin; closely related"
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This reading of "deceiver/cheat related by blood or marriage, closely related" seems to fit well with the dispute between the House of York and the House of Lancaster in 15th century England. The so-called "Wars of the Roses" were actually known as the "War of the Cousins" by contemporary sources during the period.
Also, the extended meaning of "sib" as "of a branch or bough: of kin to (the root), linked" seems to relate very fittingly to the illustration on the page and the location of these words of text.
Geoffrey
EVA:
[otaim dam alam]
reading by my provisional Middle English correspondences:
"fo[?] si[?] isi[?]"
(in line with [otol] = "fous", [aror sheey] = "irour thee~", and function words I have discussed in the "problematic...Germanic" thread, beginning on page 3 of that thread)
I researched Middle English words for which such words would all have the same final letter, and found the following:
"fob sib isib"
Middle English fob "cheat, trickster, deceiver"
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Middle English sib "related by blood or marriage; of a branch or bough: of kin to (the root), linked"
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Middle English isib "related, akin; closely related"
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This reading of "deceiver/cheat related by blood or marriage, closely related" seems to fit well with the dispute between the House of York and the House of Lancaster in 15th century England. The so-called "Wars of the Roses" were actually known as the "War of the Cousins" by contemporary sources during the period.
Also, the extended meaning of "sib" as "of a branch or bough: of kin to (the root), linked" seems to relate very fittingly to the illustration on the page and the location of these words of text.
Geoffrey