A family of grammars for Voynichese

[Jorge_Stolfi]

F85r1 has a few words where e isn’t preceded by a gallows or bench. They follow an o.

• soeeedy
  
• oeeseary
  
• oees
  

I’m hoping they aren’t the only examples of e-series as a prefix to d o s or a.

In my model, ee is a bench, like ch and sh, and may have an e suffix.  So I parse the first and third words into elements as 

• {s}{o}{eee}{d}{y}  with a valid CMC pattern, DXD
  
• {o}{ee}{s} with a valid CMC pattern, XD
  

The word oeeseary fails my model not because of the ee but because of the se, since I don't allow an e suffix for s alone (only on sh).  My guess is that the se is a scribal error for sh.  That is, the word should have been {o}{ee}{sh}{a}{r}{y} which fits my model with the valid CMC pattern XXD.

Incidentally, I see a lot of evidence of retracing on that page (or most any other page), which must have contributed to errors.  For instance, just below that oeeseary there is an ykeeeody where the y was incorrectly retraced as a.  A transcriber could easily miss the faint tail of the original y (as the Retracer apparently did) and read it as a.  But that is another thread...

All the best, --stolfi