The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[eggyk]

That is the only one I tried, but I will try some more later. My method of finding any references is to go to Google Books and search for the term. Then I use "tools", and set a range of dates from 1/1/1200 to 1/1/1912, to see if any said reference was in print by then.

Interestingly, "Abiril" as April not only appears in several German books, but heavily in 18th and 19th century published, printed works.

So Aberil actually does fulfill the requirements of my Voynich Theorem #1 quite well, but as I wrote, I do look forward to searching the others, too... I'm just super busy this morning, and far behind on my real-world tasks and responsibilities for the day!

Thanks, Rich

EDIT TO ADD: The above screenshot of the 1852 "Aberil" passage translates to, "On the ninth of April, the weather is really nice—just beautiful; you can go straight out for a walk, as it couldn't get any lovelier."- which also tells us that Google Translate is very aware that "Aberil" means "April".

Haha, you fell for my trap! I knew if I asked about aberil that you would immediately find one! I didn't really know about this type of search on google books so I will also use it in the future. I've been searching digital libraries. I will also use this tool to look for the other forms.

In all seriousness, that is an interesting find.  It seems to be the only example of aberil on there actually being used, though, so I wouldn't go as far to say that it was necessarily easily accessible or anything.



By the way, Google translate uses AI/machine learning to guess words from context, so I wouldn't say that it knowing aberil -> april means anything. You get the same translation from 'abperrlil', which i'm sure you would agree is likely not an attested form of april.