My proposal in recent studies on these pages is that there is a BASE CYCLE that runs throughout the Voynich text. The starting point for this is the statistical studies made by Patrick Feaster who showed that, in text deemed ‘Currier A’, the line of least resistance – the preferred drift of the text – is to the default vord CHOLDAIIN. This is in contrast to the Currier B text which tends to the default vord QOKEEDY.
This establishes, therefore, two streams of text, and what we see throughout the work is the intermingling of the two.
To isolate the CHOLDAIIN stream we locate vords that contain no elements from the QOKEEDY stream. This leaves a considerable class of vords many of which are among the most common vords in the manuscript.
Here I have collected LABELS in this category, ‘labels’ being defined broadly as stand-alone vords. I count the following:
<f72v1.S1.10;H> aiinod=
<f99v.L1.7;H> arol=
<f101v2.R2.2;H> arom=
<f100r.L2.2;H> chalsain=
<f70r1.X.4;H> chodal=
<f67r2.X.8;H> chodalg=
<f68r2.S.22;H> chodar=
<f68r2.S.11;H> cholar=
<f100v.T.2;H> chols=
<f72r2.S2.6;H> chosar=
<f57v.T.1;H> dairol=
<f66r.L.4;H> dara=
<f68r3.X.9;H> darall=
<f88v.b.0;H> daramdal=
<f99r.L1.2;H> darar=
<f77r.N.1;H> darchdar=
<f102r1.L1.0c;H> dardsh=
<f75v.L1.4;H> darol=
<f67r2.X.3;H> dchodar=
<f68r2.S.5;H> dchol=
<f68r3.X.1;H> doaro=
<f84r.X.6;H> doiis=
<f99v.L3.5;H> doldam=
<f82r.L2.10;H> dolol=
<f102r1.L1.0a;H> dordod=
<f99v.L4.0;H> dralas=
<f99r.L2.1;H> oaro=
<f68r2.S.2;H> odaiin=
<f72v1.S1.9;H> odal=
<f101v2.R2.8;H> odor=
<f89r1.t.3;H> oldam=
<f88r.t.4;H> oldar=
<f75v.L2.3;H> olol=
<f102v2.L2.6;H> olrodar=
<f83r.W.2;H> olsaiin=
<f99r.L2.3;H> ooror=
<f72v2.S2.11;H> oraiin=
<f72r3.S3.7;H> oral=
<f57v.Y.1;H> oralaror=
<f88r.t.3;H> orald=
<f88r.m.2;H> oram=
<f67r2.S.8;H> oran=
<f101v2.R1.6;H> orar=
<f72r3.S2.10;H> orara=
<f100r.L3.2b;H> orol=
<f102v2.L1.1;H> oror=
<f72r3.S3.4;H> osaiisal=
<f67r2.S.7;H> osar=
<f66r.L.12;H> raiin=
<f66r.L.2;H> rals=
<f66r.L.15;H> raral=
<f99v.L2.4;H> saiino=
<f69v.L.14;H> saiir=
<f75r.L.5;H> saino=
<f72r2.S2.2;H> salal=
<f89r1.b.2;H> saldam=
<f99r.L1.4;H> salo=
<f99r.L1.7;H> salol=
<f102v2.L2.5;H> sarol=
<f89r2.L3.1;H> sodar=
<f82r.L2.7;H> sororl=
<f67r1.S.5;H> sosaiir=
<f77v.N.4;H> sosoral=
These vords do not contain [q] or a gallows glyph, or an [e] or a [y] – elements from the QOKEEDY paradigm. They are purely from the CHOLDAIIN cycle.
I contend that all of these vords can be easily mapped onto a cycle of CHOLDAIIN elements which I take to be the basic, underlying cycle of the text. All of these vords can be mapped onto the top two lines of the paradigm without any intrusion from the other cycles:
Note, however, the relative sparsity of the benched form [ch] or [sh] in this list. In fact, [sh] only occurs once. I have noted this before in a previous post. The benched glyphs are conspicuously rare in labels.
It is part of the same phenomenon by which [q] is rare among labels. See this post here.
<f72v1.S1.10;H> aiinod=
<f100v.T.2;H> chols=
<f84r.X.6;H> doiis=
<f68r2.S.2;H> odaiin=
<f83r.W.2;H> olsaiin=
<f99v.L2.4;H> saiino=
<f75r.L.5;H> saino=
R.B.
