Voynich through Phonetic Irish

[rikforto]

I'm posting several of my TikToks this afternoon to youtube so they're easily accessible. The proper more involved lessons will be up later tonight. I'll probably get rid of the quick posts I did yesterday. The first video from TikTok I posted goes over how I'm sounding out a word and searching for it on Teanglann(linked below) There is no cherry picking. I'm searching and the first word or a suggestion that's phonetically adjacent is there. These words I then check with an etymology dictionary to ensure they were around in 1400s. It is shockingly easy/simple. Someone mentioned that here actually haha, I don't disagree. It is incredibly simple.


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Three things so far: First, from this I don't see how to get the phonetic reading. (How do you deal with Voynichese's famously odd letter ordering?) Second, despite your claims, you do choose a dictionary entry, that is what is literally happening at ~1:52. In order for someone to replicate this, you will need to explain how you determined phonetic closeness here. Finally, I have serious reservations about the translation. "Tender maidens shelter little throng gossamer in spot of ground basin in little ford a small space of time gives what is needed" is, to put it mildly, gibberish. I will admit to not knowing Irish so I will have to defer if you've got speakers saying that's a well-formed Irish sentence in need of a colloquial translation, but I do have some formal linguistics behind me when I say those are very odd constructions for a European language! From what I can see, this looks a lot like the Turkish solution so far