Ruby's Greek Thread

[Oscroft]

In the meantime, please feel free to rephrase your question, because I don't quite understand it.

You suggest you see a similarity between the Voynichese word represented by keerodal/muro8ai in EVA and the Greek μυρωδία, and I'm just trying to understand what that similarity actually is. The only genuine similarity I can see is that muro8ai and μυρωδία have the same number of letters, but I assume you can see more than that - and I'd really just like to know what it is you see here?

I'd earlier suspected that you might be seeing a match between the m and u at the start of muro8ai with the mu and upsilon at the start of μυρωδία, which is why I made my comment on phonetics - as EVA m and u are purely arbitrary code choices and do not imply that the real Voynichese letters are in any way similar to m and u. (And I'm not suggesting you made that mistake, but plenty of others have - including someone here recently who said they'd compared the sound of Voynichese with modern languages, and even an academic a few years ago who claimed he'd worked out how to sing it )

PS: I just want to emphasise that I'm asking you this simply to try to understand how your Greek theory works and how you made the connection, not to suggest you're doing anything wrong by making suggestions.