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[oshfdk]

That may be, but it does not explain the frequency of the word, and in all sorts of places.
Hence certainly no name.
The more frequent a word, the more likely it is to be ambiguous. I know it from dialect, where one word covers several variants.
Example Latin - German. English translation.

Unless the cipher doesn't preserve the order of the syllables. A very simple experiment, taking the text of Opus Majus (I use it as the benchmark a lot) let's count how many times 'de' and 'us' appear within up to 4 characters from one another:

Code:

> cat opmaj.txt | egrep -i -o 'de.{0,4}us|us.{0,4}de' | wc -l 1090

It's 1090 times. The whole text is:

Code:

> cat opmaj.txt | wc -w 237819

words.

So, this combination appears once every 218 words. Not as frequent as okal in the Voynich manuscript, however if the Voynich manuscript specifically deals with Deus in some form, the number could be higher. Also, if this is a distance cipher at work, there could be other possible character combinations that when encoded would produce okal as part of a larger encoded string. I'm not arguing strongly in favor of this hypothesis, however I see no obvious counterpoint to it as of yet.