Distribution of Common Prefixes and Suffixes

2017-03-20

In Table 1, the sections used are those found in Page Clusters in the Voynich Manuscript. Count is the number of occurrences of words formed from the common prefixes and suffixes in the section.

	blue herbal	black herbal	red herbal	green herbal	astro	pharma	blue text	black text	red text	blue bio	black bio	red bio
Count	627	824	1480	557	1227	775	1062	3328	1086	889	1216	947

Table 1: Number of words with common prefixes and suffixes for each section

Table 2 and Table 3 contain the per mille frequencies of the common prefixes and suffixes, respectively, only in words formed from these. Ignoring rounding errors, the columns sum to 1000. This summarizes the differences between the various manuscript sections.

	blue herbal	black herbal	red herbal	green herbal	astro	pharma	blue text	black text	red text	blue bio	black bio	red bio
-	183	160	229	98	325	221	181	220	204	208	168	124
d-	335	301	169	475	189	311	80	99	70	149	98	138
od-	20	26	25	14	21	21	3	17	6	1	3	1
qod-	14	21	9	14	6	6	0	13	3	0	2	3
chod-	40	34	15	14	8	21	1	16	4	1	0	1
shod-	15	32	7	16	2	6	1	9	2	0	0	1
yd-	12	8	2	7	5	5	0	2	0	1	1	1
k-	55	42	55	26	17	29	32	36	33	42	35	16
ok-	81	71	132	44	97	131	140	94	145	122	74	77
qok-	37	63	106	51	28	98	254	141	234	227	320	379
chok-	17	15	5	9	16	15	3	12	6	0	0	0
shok-	8	2	2	2	3	4	3	2	3	0	2	1
yk-	14	38	40	23	26	23	9	21	12	22	8	4
t-	20	32	32	17	20	13	18	23	23	28	27	18
ot-	59	63	78	59	153	42	131	116	117	81	88	64
qot-	37	35	27	56	17	10	61	65	44	40	74	99
chot-	26	9	2	21	21	4	2	9	1	0	1	0
shot-	6	2	0	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
yt-	8	33	26	42	31	5	7	26	3	15	5	6
ld-	0	2	5	0	0	1	5	4	0	0	7	5
old-	6	6	7	3	2	19	1	1	1	3	3	4
qold-	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
chold-	6	0	0	2	1	4	1	1	0	0	0	0
shold-	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2
yld-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
lk-	0	1	5	0	2	0	51	38	67	7	8	23
olk-	0	0	13	0	6	6	14	25	15	43	59	17
qolk-	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	3	7	8
cholk-	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	4	1	0	1	1
sholk-	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
ylk-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
lt-	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	3	4	2	2	3
olt-	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	1	0	4	4	1
qolt-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
cholt-	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
sholt-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
ylt-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Table 2: Per mille frequency of prefixes in each section

	blue herbal	black herbal	red herbal	green herbal	astro	pharma	blue text	black text	red text	blue bio	black bio	red bio
-	34	24	14	21	22	8	7	7	6	3	2	1
-al	34	58	68	28	119	63	74	102	85	69	91	124
-aly	3	2	15	0	25	4	11	14	1	10	9	7
-aim	2	6	3	0	2	3	1	1	6	0	0	0
-ain	61	29	37	38	19	35	217	67	74	73	184	91
-aiin	235	200	168	417	139	189	81	239	119	84	67	146
-aiiin	8	5	3	3	2	5	2	12	6	2	2	6
-air	18	15	23	7	36	21	7	42	13	2	7	3
-aiir	6	6	8	7	15	1	0	7	0	0	1	0
-am	23	38	42	16	37	34	17	27	28	9	10	4
-ar	56	75	153	30	137	54	98	145	67	70	84	57
-ary	6	1	9	2	13	4	3	4	4	6	2	6
-as	2	1	4	0	4	0	2	2	0	0	4	2
-ol	95	137	50	87	59	158	38	50	30	145	121	67
-oly	5	0	4	7	13	8	8	2	1	12	10	6
-oim	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
-oin	2	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	1	2
-oiin	17	9	0	28	6	20	6	4	2	2	2	4
-oiiin	2	0	1	3	0	3	0	1	0	2	0	1
-oir	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
-oiir	3	2	0	2	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
-om	8	15	1	7	3	6	0	3	3	0	0	0
-or	93	90	73	72	45	93	18	37	18	44	24	18
-ory	0	2	1	2	3	13	1	1	1	1	7	1
-os	8	11	3	2	10	11	1	3	0	0	1	0
-y	188	172	122	162	90	90	58	65	32	62	102	70
-ey	15	14	15	9	40	39	52	12	33	36	24	24
-eey	32	33	25	19	81	92	137	50	160	45	57	64
-eeey	5	7	3	2	7	11	10	11	20	1	4	5
-dy	44	31	21	28	28	23	6	7	2	20	19	10
-ed	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	2	2	1	2	3
-edy	0	7	91	0	19	1	54	31	114	204	74	129
-eed	0	1	1	0	3	0	5	3	6	7	2	5
-eedy	0	5	38	0	18	3	82	47	167	88	86	141

Table 3: Per mille frequency of suffixes in each section