An attempt at extracting grammar from vord order statistics.

[MarcoP]

I guess that we are going off-topic with respect to Davidd’s research. My favorite hypothesis with respect to EVA:m is that it is an abbreviation. I have no conclusive evidence, but in my opinion there are hints pointing in that direction:

1.
The downward stroke added to EVA:r r to produce EVA:m m is similar to the downward stroke turning the Latin letter ‘r’ into an abbreviation for ‘ris’. Examples from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
   

2.
If one removes the final -m from Voynich word X-m and searches for words sharing the same root, the most common results are ‘X-iin’ or ‘X-in’, e.g. qokam matches qokaiin/qokain, dam matches daiin etc.

EVA_Q13
qokam 5 : qokain 162 , qokal 104 , qokaiin 87
dam 4 : daiin 76 , dar 57 , dal 51
am 3 : aiin 24 , ar 15 , al 14
ram 3 : raiin 12 , rain 8 , ral 7
lom 3 : lol 17 , lor 10 , lo 5

EVA_Q20
am 18 : aiin 122 , ar 111 , al 84
otam 16 : otaiin 77 , otain 52 , otar 50
qokam 12 : qokaiin 118 , qokain 100 , qokal 39
okam 8 : okaiin 97 , okain 67 , okal 38
dam 8 : daiin 110 , dain 42 , dar 34

3.
Actual scribal abbreviations sometimes show a preference for the right-most part of lines (as scribes shortened words to squeeze them into the page). In 2016, I shared an example (from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) commenting on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..