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From owner-vms-list@voynich.net  Tue Oct 30 18:53:25 2007
Message-ID: <BAY117-W4A0E18EF6957884B93724BE920@phx.gbl>
From: funny bunny <ice-bunny@hotmail.co.uk>
To: <vms-list@voynich.net>
Subject: VMs: Erhard Landmann + "michiton" info please?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:35:58 +0000


Luca,

Just a passing comparison I found in Pirahã (see my last "code"
subject mail for code/natural languages/Pirahã ) that shows the x/sh
connection I was trying to explain. The "sh" of Sumerian is found in
words which contain "x" in other languages, as seen below if "x"
replaces the "sh" even some words of these two languages are very
similar. I know x/k works in a similar way. N.B. o would be u in
Sumerian.

                  Pirahã                 Sumerian


hand  =           xoi                    shu  (xo?)

raise the hand =  ?                      shu il  (xo il?)

finger =          ?                      shu-si (xo-si)

pretty =          xo'i                   shuba (xoba?)

to fight =        xoti'                  ti-sah  (ti-x(a)?)

to drink =        xit-a'ipi'             ?

water chanel =    ?                      shitan (xitan)

moan =            xisi'                  she sha (xe xa)

cry =             xisi'                  i-si-ish (i-si-ix)


This is just an example that came up, but I have found in the past
that the modern X corresponds as a later form of the earlier k and sh.


Bunny