Brainstorming: could VMS words have an underlying 3-part structure?

[Torsten]

The earliest example I have seen of a three-part word structure was by Stolfi in 1997

Actually Mike Roe [no ref, sorry] had already proposed an automaton for generating valid Voynichese words, that implies a three-part structure:

I am now trying to revise and improve the model of mine that Rene cited above.  It changed again in many important details.  Please stay tuned...

All the best, --stolfi

The reference is probably the following email from 1993:
 

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Subject: A word to unlock the Voynich MS
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In a message a while back, Ron carter wished for just one word to provide a way
into the text.

That word could be "OPAE", with its declension OPAE, 4OPAE, SOPAE, it's
variant form OFAE, 4OFAE, SOFAE, and its line-final form OPAJ, 4OFAJ, SOFAJ.

This word occurs rather a lot in the labels in the astrological folios.
``Star'' maybe? Or ``day''? Or some synonym of these in some language...

P and F are dividing bars separating inflection from the noun. At a guess,
O- = nominative, 4O- = accusative, SO- = dative...

                  +-O--+  +-R-+
O  --+        +--+    +--+  +----+
      |  +-P-+  |  +-SO-+  +-E-+    |
4O --+--+  +--+                  |
      |  +-F-+  |  +-C--+          |
SO --+        |  |    |          |
                |  +-CC-+          |
                |  |    |          |
                +--+-SC-+--9--------+------>
                |  |    |          |
                |  +-S--+          |
                |  |    |          |
                |  +-Z--+          |
                |  |    |          |
                |  +----+          |
                |                  |
                |  +-AE-+          |
                |  |    |          |
                +--+-AJ-+-----------+
                  |    |
                  +-AM-+
                  |    |
                  +-AN-+
Mike