Assembly analysis

There are many possible decompositions of a LINE of Voynich text, each privileging one or other feature. My methods are, perforce, non-statistical: paradigms and patterns. I am trying to find useful (non-statistical) methods for analysing lines and better understanding Voynichese.

This method I call ASSEMBLY ANALYSIS. It supposes that longer vords are composed of shorter vords, that vords are assembled from basic elements within the line.

To illustrate this I divide the vords of a line into four groups:

1. Those with gallows.
2. Benched, but without gallows. ([ch] and [sh] vords)
3. The [daiin] group
4. Particles and sundries.

Vords with gallows are marked with bold.

Benched vords without gallows - [ch] and [sh] vords – are marked in italics.

The [daiin] group are marked green.

The particles and sundries are left unmarked.

The categories go in that order. If a vord might be in two groups, it is marked in the higher.

There is an implied hierarchy or assembly order, with the order culminating in vords with gallows.

I describe the idea of promotion or ELEVATION. A vord is promoted or ELEVATED if it has a benched glyph (or q-) added to it, and it is further promoted or elevated if it has a gallows glyph added to it.

Thus: aiin might be elevated or promoted to become chaiin, which may be promoted to become kaiin.

There is an implied order, simplicity to complexity, shorter to longer (as well as shorter to taller according to a vertical decomposition.)

As an additional point of analysis I have also marked the vord in each line that is nearest to either of two default vords: QOKEEDY or CHOLDAIIN. A vord near to QOKEEDY is marked in red and a vord near to CHOLDAIIN is marked in blue.

The proposal is that vords in a line, in their assembly from smaller units, mutate towards one of the paradigm vords. This is a method for showing this process.

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Now we disassemble lines into these four groups:

<f101r1.P.6;H>

okeeol.sho.shody.sho.shol.okeeeol.cheos.sheokeey.sheeor.chchy.chodaiin.sheeckhey.teeol.scheol.sar.oeeor=

sar.
oeeor

sho.
sho
shol
shody.
cheos
chchy
scheol
sheeor
chodaiin

teeol
okeeol.
okeeeol.
sheokeey.
sheeckhey.


Here it seems the benched group moves towards CHODAIIN but the gallowed group move towards QOKEEDY.

We can see motifs being developed. The motif of a string of vowels is already present in the ‘Particles’ group: oeeor. This is elevated to [sheeor] and then to [-eeol] forms in the gallows, with [r] and [l] glyphs interchangable.

As we see in a Vord Paradigm we quickly observe that glyphs mutate. Some mutations are more common than others, but the general rule is consonants-for-consonants and vowels-for-vowels.

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Another example:

<f99r.P3.10;H>

sol.sheol.keshey.qokeeey.chs.chey.dolchey.ctheey.daiin.cheom-

sol.

daiin

chs.
chey.
sheol.
cheom-
dolchey.

ctheey.
keshey.
qokeeey.

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And another:

<f100r.P2.7;H>

saiichor.sheor.qockhody.odeor.yksheey.chol.sheody.sai.cheol.raiin-

 
sai.
odeor.

raiin

chol.
cheol.
sheor.
sheody.
saiichor.

yksheey
qockhody

In many cases we see how longer vords are assembled from smaller units. Note how the particle [sai] is a constituent part of [saiichor.]

In fact, [saiichor] might be seen as being assembled entirely from smaller elements. The double [ii], for instance, might be taken from [raiin]. Notably, saiichor resembles the default vord backwards: choldaiin = chor-saii.

Again, we see the gallowed vords being developed towards QOKEEDY and the benched-no-gallows vords developing towards CHOLDAIIN.

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A few more examples at random:

<f20r.P.12;H>

shoiin.cheody.otchey.otchy.tchy.qoteey.daiin.dar-

dar-

daiin.

shoiin.
cheody.

tchy.
otchy.
otchey.
qoteey.

***

<f104v.P.25;H>

dsheey.qoykeey.lchedy.qokedaiin.orchcthy.daiin.cheey.sair.ol.aiin.chedy-

ol.

aiin.
sair.
daiin.

cheey.
chedy
lchedy.
dsheey.

orchcthy.
qoykeey.
qokedaiin.

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<f55v.P.11;H>

ykaiin.cheoar.cheeky.oldy.aiin.okal.oltchy.or.y.orain-

y.
or.
oldy.

aiin.
orain-

 
cheoar.

okal.
ykaiin.
oltchy.
cheeky

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<f102r2.P.13;H>

okol.shey.qockhey.dol.shey.dol.sheey.qokol.daiin.oky.oky-

dol.
dol

daiin.

shey.
shey.
sheey.

oky.
oky.
okol.
qokol.
qockhey.

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<f101r1.P.2;H>

dol.chokeey.chkey.cthey.okal.chol.kol.okeey.r.or.ol.okolol.olchey.qokchor.okey.qokeol.kor.shey.teol.or.aiin.chol.daiin=

r.
or.
or.
ol.
dol.

aiin.
daiin

chol.
chol.
shey.
olchey.

kor
kol.
teol. 
okal.

okey.
cthey.
chkey.
okeey.
okolol.
qokeol
chokeey.
qokchor.

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R.B.