Deconstructing Vords - Part 1

Proposal 

All Voynichese words whatsoever have been constructed from two paradigmatic words, two verbum potentiae, QOKEEDY and CHOLDAIIN.

Moreover – and essentially – the relationship between these two key terms is one of coinciding opposites: a coincidentia oppositorum.

Voynichese vocabulary consists of mutations and permutations of these two words in themselves as well as blended together on the basis of their coinciding opposites.

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The QOKEEDY paradigm is triune, or tripartiite. QOKEEDY naturally breaks into three syllables (tripartition): QO – KEE – DY, but, in this, is more strongly bound together than CHOLDAIIN.

The CHOLDAIIN paradigm naturally bifurcates. It readily breaks into two parts: CHOL – DAIIN, and is given to fragmentation.

Nota bena: The two paradigms have word breaks implied. The processes that form words can also extend across the word breaks. 

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Truncation 

The most straightforward cases of vocabulary derived from the keywords are simple truncations. For example:

oldaiin

A truncation of CHOLDAIIN.

okey

A truncation of QOKEEDY.

okeey

Another truncation of QOKEEDY. 

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Compaction 

Special cases of truncation are those of compaction, where the initial and final glyphs of the word is unchanged but glyphs are deleted from within the word. The keyword is shortened and compacted.

chdain

A compaction of CHOLDAIIN.

qody

A compaction of QOKEEDY.


In all instances of truncation or compaction it is relevant to ask: what has been deleted?

In qody, for example, the midfix KEE has been deleted. qody is QOKEEDY with the KEE midfix omitted. This is as significant as what remains.

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Bifurcations 

The most important cases of truncation are straight bifurcations. The CHOLDAIIN paradigm typically bifurcates. Thus, chol and daiin are two of the most common words in the entire text. Indeed, daiin is by far the most common.

chol

A bifurcation of CHOLDAIIN. A free-standing prefix.

daiin

A bifurcation of CHOLDAIIN. A free-standing suffix.

keedy

A bifurcation of QOKEEDY. This is less common. Here QOKEEDY is bifurcated like CHOLDAIIN. 

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Simple Mutations 

Some glyphs can mutate into others, especially the glyphs of CHOLDAIIN. CHOLDAIIN is inherently mutable.

In QOKEEDY the [k] can mutate into other gallows, especially [t].

shol

A simple mutation. This is [chol] with the [ch] mutated into [sh].

chor

This is [chol] with the [l] mutated into [r].

saiin

This is [daiin] with the [d] mutated into [s].

qoteedy

This is QOKEEDY with the gallows [k] mutated into gallows [t].

shodaiin

A compaction of CHOLDAIIN – because the [l] has been dropped - with the [ch] mutated into [sh].

chdam

A radical compaction of CHOLDAIIN with the [n] mutated to [m].

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Prefix-suffix exchange 

An extensive phenomenon in the text is the bringing together of a prefix from one paradigm and a suffix from the other paradigm.

This is based on the bifurcations of CHOLDAIIN.

QOKEEDY, remember, is tripartite, and so more naturally the suffix is [dy]. Either bifurcation or tripartition is possible.

We can meet such combinations as:

QOK + DAIIN

CHOL + KEEDY

CHOL + DY

QOKEE + DAIIN

As well as truncations and mutations of these.

Examples:

qokaiin

cholky

okaiin

qokeeaiin 

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Just these simple processes can account for a very substantial corpus of vocabulary found throughout the Voynich text.

For the most part, new statistical studies are not required to test these cases. They are already demonstrated in the great volume of existing studies and are easy to observe.

It is a simple observation, for example, – confirmed by statistics, if one feels the need – that the most common words in the text: daiin, aiin, chol, and others, are derived from the bifurcations of CHOLDAIIN. 

R.B.