23-10-2025, 01:28 PM
You said:
Only one letter is different here. Otherwise, it's exactly the same word. It seems like a repetition, where the writer wasn't sure which version to write: is the t inside the ch ligature or outside it? I suspect Latin, as I said...
Personally I wouldn't call it a repetition but a similar word.
It was observed several times that VM contains many clusters of similar words appearing in a close proximity.
But we aren't sure how to interpret it.
One option is "autocitation theory" which says that Voynich text is nonsense and the scribe was creating new words by altering already written ones.
But it isn't universally accepted.
Only one letter is different here. Otherwise, it's exactly the same word. It seems like a repetition, where the writer wasn't sure which version to write: is the t inside the ch ligature or outside it? I suspect Latin, as I said...
Personally I wouldn't call it a repetition but a similar word.
It was observed several times that VM contains many clusters of similar words appearing in a close proximity.
But we aren't sure how to interpret it.
One option is "autocitation theory" which says that Voynich text is nonsense and the scribe was creating new words by altering already written ones.
But it isn't universally accepted.