The origin of the base shapes of the Voynich alphabet

[RenegadeHealer]

I see three separate strokes for that EVA-d you posted. I'm seeing EVA c, i, and v superimposed on one another.

This doesn't necessarily mean that d was designed out of a combination of these three strokes or these three letters. I always took large amounts of handwritten notes in school, and when I wrote the wrong letter by mistake, the first think I'd look to do was add an extra stroke or two to make it look more like the letter I intended to write. It's less time and labor intensive, and sometimes more aesthetically pleasing, than crossing out or erasing. This is immediately what I thought of when I saw this, and right after, the oft-repeated "the VMS has no obvious corrections" played in my head. It's possible that, due to constraints of time or materials, doing this type of correction was preferred over a physical deletion of the incorrect character.

Incorrect words, meanwhile, might have been rewritten correctly immediately thereafter, without a strikethrough or any other obvious mark. This would explain the occurrence of very similar words right next to each other in strings of 2 or 3 throughout the MS.