Quote:But even so, I'm not familiar with gas as quickly either, so perhaps you could clarify its origin.
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(18-07-2016, 09:13 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Anton - I can't make much sense of the word if the final letter is an -n and the preceding one is not a vowel. Vald-n ... Similarly, it's hard to complete "valdc-" apart from with a vowel. Or perhaps something like "valdch", though that would require the "h" to have been much smaller than the other ones - unlikely.
What about if the last letters in valden were corrected? The "e" looks as if the scribe was forming another of those 8-like d's, just like the preceding character, but then he erased it.
The alleged "d" is also strange. It's not like the (alleged) "d" in "oladabas". It's more like the (alleged, sorry!) "s" in the end of the words. What if it's an "s" indeed? Is an 8-shaped "s" OK in the middle of the word? As far as I understand, "vals" means "falsehood, fraud" in MHD. Could "valsen" be a word form of "vals"?