Expert Opinions on 'daiin'

[JoJo_Jost]

They could be mapped to some number, but they are very rare.
From the GC transliteration:

in : 1759
ir : 610
il : 37

il represents about 0.02 % of all (composite) characters in the MS.

Now of course I am not seriously suggesting that these characters represent the numbers 1 to whatever, but they appear just like an enumeration.

Of course, one could simply play around with this. If you can calculate the exact occurrences, we could do it the other way round:

Based on the number of hits, we could create a list that would correspond to a natural distribution of numbers in medieval texts in the fields of botany and medicine. And if these hits reveal a logic in the letter sequences, we would at least have a good clue.

an; ain; aiin; aiiin, air; aiir; aiiir; il; iil; ais; as

Due to the low occurrences of as and ais, I would define these as 10 and 20, for example. So we had to look for: ais ain = 22 e.g. This is because numbers above 10 rarely appear in medical and botanical texts, and numbers above 20 even more rarely. Quantities usually change the unit (ounce, lot) of measurement as they get higher, and in botany, you rarely count all the leaves  .

It would be interesting, but I no longer consider such a complex number system necessary for a corresponding text from that period. (Just a side note.)