The c9-derived suffix

[Trithemius]

Welcome to the forum!  Just as a recommendation, it would be handy to familiarize yourself with the EVA alphabet, which is what most people of the forum use to communicate unambiguously about the text. It is also used on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .

There are others here who know much more about common glyph patterns than I do. Two things I can think of:

* This should probably not be considered without also taking into account the common [edy] ending (which you'd call c89), which accounts for over half of all [dy] endings. So are we looking at omission of [d] in the case of [ey]?
* dy-type endings are the main marker between Currier A and B. They are important in some way, but knowing how would probably mean solving the MS...

Thanks for the welcome and for the advice. I'll use EVA around here for greater clarity, though, I somtimes feel like neither transliteration system is optimal.

Thank you for the thoughts on triagraphic y endings, I'll look into that as well.

I'm sure you've already seen this kind of thing before, but I also found that certain words with edy endings are often doubled -- (sorry for the graph's legend in non-EVA)

   

   

It made me think of how sometimes you see doublings in recipes in latin texts, for example (im making this up, but could find examples)

Aqua aqua quae fluit de monte illo est calida et sulphurea -- the water, the water that flows from the mountain is hot and sulfurous

or 

Balneum, balneum calidum et medicinale; balneum balneum frigidum sterilitatem facit -- the bath, the bath is hot and medicinal; the bath, the bath that is cold causes sterility.

By the way, I'm not offering a translation or anything here. I'm just sharing thoughts. I know how easily attempting to translate words like this breaks down when you put it to the test. I'm not new to the Voynich, just new to this forum.