Oh look, it's a dain.

[MarcoP]

But, seriously, dain is a word, apparently a variant, known to anyone of the VMs era familiar with French, but has the translation been discussed previously? Perhaps I've missed it.

There is a lot to discuss because, as we all know, EVA is THE TRUTH and one match with an alternate spelling of a random word just has to mean something, right?

I agree. If one spends enough time reading late medieval manuscripts, it becomes clear that in those scripts almost all letters are problematic, if you don't know the underlying language.

It seems clear that Voynichese took its inspiration from symbols and abbreviations used in cursive manuscripts. In my opinion, numerals played an important role, with EVA:odly showing considerable similarity with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Certainly, in early XV Century manuscripts, the shape of EVA:d is most frequently seen as the digit 8, rather than the Latin characters 'd' or 's'.

The possibility that in-sequences are minims is often discussed. The problem of parsing minims was so great that in medieval times scribes introduced a small dot to distinguish i from part of m, n, u etc. Without the dot, 'dain' in the French manuscript could just as well be read as 'dam' or 'dani'. Courier's transliteration renders dain as 8AN; a reminder of the many possible choices faced when mapping Voynichese to a different alphabet.

If one wanted to push the parallel with cursive manuscripts, EVA:in is of course close to the frequent Latin ending 'um', rendered with a macron-ligature. But a macron was used to mark all kinds of abbreviations, so that the Latin preposition You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. can be written in a way that is comparable with EVA:ain.