The vowel exchange "a" to "o"

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Hi Jorge, have you found a way to identify the prefixes, word stems, and suffixes? I'm still looking for a good way to do that.

Here is part of a draft of a tech report that I started writing ~20 years ago but never finished.  It describes a way of parsing Voynichese words into a string of "elements", and then parse these elements into seven segments, after deleting the "circle" letters a, o, y.  These are then supposed to be inserted into that "skeleton", at most one circle into each spot.  

This approach simplifies the analysis (and removes the noise created by a/o transcription errors), but leaves it ambiguous whether each circle attaches to the previous element, to the next element, or to neither of them. That is,whether Chor is [Cho][r] or [Ch][or] or [Ch][o][r].

The schema is described graphically on figure 3.  You could use the three rows of that figure as prefix, core, and suffix. 

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However the parsing will be ambiguous if the word has no gallows (that is, if the core is empty).  In that case you can decide that the benches are the core.  If there are neither gallows nor benches, you could take the dealers to be the core.  

Maybe it will be simpler if you analyze separately the words that fit each of these three cases (with gallows, no gallows but benches, neither gallows nor benches) 

Hope it helps, --stolfi