Voynich through Phonetic Irish

[Doireannjane]

I was thinking about po as tea, and whatever reservations I have about how you arrive at that phonetic reading, there's also an etymological problem. Now, I don't have a dated etymology for Irish, though I do have it on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as coming from Amoy Chinese. I cannot imagine that arrived in Ireland well ahead of the English one from the same route. In that vein do have a date for its arrival in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., sometime in the mid-1600s, though if gotten directly from the Dutch you can push that back to 1610.

So I guess my question is: Can you account for this? Does your theory have a date for the manuscript? A period of Irish we should be looking at?

I can't account for that. I didn't look at the history there. The only other near equivalent for that sound for Tae= TAh, would be the word for resin which dates back much further for the area. This word also could fit with the context of both. 

Tá a form of:
bí1, f. (gs. ~). Pitch, resin. S.a. OLA1.