27-02-2026, 11:11 PM
(27-02-2026, 06:53 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I won't go that far. For now, I only became convinced that many final ir (note, not just any final r) are scribal errors for iin (note that here r = in, not r = n). I believe that those errors are so common that replacing all final ir by iin will fix more errors than create new ones.
All the best, --stolfi
If this is true, I would expect the ratio of occurrences of a word written with final -iin vs. the occurrences of the same word but written with -ir to be more or less constant (this assumes a simple model in which the scribe randomly miswrites an -iin as -ir with some probability). Did you check that?


