Abbreviations, anyone?

[zobowiazanie]

I'm not sure if this the proper thread for this, but I don't think I've seen anyone discuss this before. The innermost ring on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contains the sequence dair y chdy otoar ar y:



What's astonishing to me is that two y glyphs clearly have horizontal bars above them which makes me think they might be abbreviations. Just like the qo on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:



They remind me of the mallier aller lucz... sequence on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:



where cz is possibly an abbreviation too. Widely known, but related so I threw it in here.

[nablator]

two y glyphs clearly have horizontal bars above them which makes me think they might be abbreviations. Just like the qo on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

These possible macrons can also be found on f90r1.6: qokeo[s:r] and f111v.24: qokar.

[MarcoP]

This handful of very interesting cases seems consistent with the idea that the Voynich text makes little use of abbreviations, as suggested by the low character entropy. Compare the number of macrons in each line of the manuscript linked in the first post of this thread.