08-07-2026, 03:56 PM
(08-07-2026, 01:26 PM)Mauro wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Actually, prefixes, infixes and suffixes, everything is possible. But one also needs roots! and this is the problem with Voynichese: after removing prefixes and suffixes most of the times nothing remains.
I don't think that the Voynichese words have morphological prefixes or suffixes (inflections or attached function words like the Arabic article, Japanese postpositions, Italian oblique pronouns, etc.).
However, in defense of that claim: just because a syllable or letter can be a suffix or prefix, it does not mean that it is always one of those things. Not every final "-mi", "-le", "-re", etc in Italian is a morpheme. So if you strip everything that could be a prefix or suffix from an Italian word, often there will be nothing left.
And in agglutinative languages the set of possible suffixes and prefixes is very large.
All the best, --stolfi

