Evidence for 2 rules linking words in Herbal A->B

[dashstofsk]

I have been attempting to discover one of these 'transformation rules' that would repair the severed word distributions between the two different Herbals, and I think I have found a few that have compelling evidence.

You have an interesting idea.

Your lists of words are almost all gallow words, and the strings that you consider to be of significance,   chy, edy, chdy   are suffices to the gallow words ( i.e. the segments that comes after the gallow character ).

Perhaps a better way to explore the phenomenon would be to list by frequency the suffices of all gallow words from languages A and B and to compare the frequencies. I have done this.

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You will notice that   edy, eedy, ain, ar, chedy, chdy   are all significantly more frequent in language B than in A.

ol, chy, or, eol, chol, chor, eor   are all more frequent in language A.

I think it will take more than a few 'transformation rules' to explain the differences between A and B.

Perhaps you might also care to read a previous post of mine [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ] where I tried to show that the majority of gallow words could be constructed from lists of prefixes and suffices and that the choice of suffix is independent of the prefix.