The Vord Rule

Further refinement to the vord paradigm explored on recent pages. To reduce the paradigm to the simplest formula:

Every vord must conform to the default vord QOKEEDY as nearly as possible, consonants with consonants and vowels with vowels, tripartite with a hard boundary at the gallows. 

This, in fact, reduces Voynichese down to a single rule: every vord is based upon the template of QOKEEDY and approximates it more or less.

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Every vord consists of a stem and an ending, and a great many have a prefix added, the prefix being provoked by a gallows in the stem. 

Every vord has a subject. It is the element of the stem around which other elements revolve. In the default vord QOKEEDY the subject is [k]. The [k] is the core of the stem that is modified by the other elements. 

Every extra part of a vord should be understood as an element that modifies (acts upon) the subject. Elements might be:

*additional consonants in the stem that create compounds with the subject (eg. [pchd] = the subject is [p] with [ch] and [d] as compounds. A compound consonant.
*different arrangements of vowels in stem in the position [ee]. (eg. eeee, ai, aiii)
*prefixes before the subject or a compound containing the subject.

The subject of a vord is usually a gallows, or bench, but in any case almost always a consonant corresponding to the [k] in QOKEEDY (and only rarely a vowel corresponding to [ee].)

The default ending is [y] but often endings are formed by hard consonants [m], [g] etc corresponding to the [d] in QOKEEDY.

Finals provoke a word break.

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Applying this streamlined paradigm to LINES rather than isolated vords. Here is a breakdown of Line 10, Page 39r (selected at random):

 

We can consolidate this for clarity into the tripartite system of three compartments, A, B and C and see the STEMS, Endings and Prefixes.

To parse it long-hand:

pchdar = pchda – r
shedy = she – dy
ar = a – r
aiir = aii – r
okair = o – kai – r
ykeols = y – keo – ls
shedy = she – dy
qockhdy = qo – ckh – dy
laiin = laii – n
syky = sy – k – y

The subject of each vord is always the foremost element of the stem:

pchdar = pchda – r
shedy = she – dy
ar = a – r
aiir = aii – r
okair = o – kai – r
ykeols = y – keo – ls
shedy = she – dy
qockhdy = qo – ckh – dy
laiin = laii – n
syky = sy – k – y

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The principle is:

where there are any dilemmas in parsing, choose the formation that most nearly corresponds to QOKEEDY, consonants with consonants and vowels with vowels. Parse the vord to as near to QOKEEDY as you can. 

R. B.