Statistical Proof of Rule-Governed Morphology in the Voynich Manuscript

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Hello,

What are Classes A, B, C and D?

I goofed that and forgot to change the legend.  It's fixed now.  And thanks for pointing this out, I've been dying to have an excuse to make this post.

For a more visual explanation of what that chart shows:

Not only are the Voynich words broken into morphemes that follow a prefix → root → stem → postfix methodology, each page also follows the same grammatical pattern structurally. And the pattern shows up everywhere in the manuscript.  You can think of them as descriptive zones, illustrative zones and resultative zones.

   
In herbals, on pages that have three text blocks, it's like a full sentence from top to bottom: the top text introduces the subject, the descriptive zone, the middle works through the stems and modifiers, the illustrative zone, and the bottom block closes it off with postfixes like -y and -dy, describing what the plant does or how it’s used, the resultative zone.


When there are only two text blocks, the top section is full of prefixes like qo- and ch- that name or define the plant, and the bottom zone takes over the illustrative and resultative roles.

   
On pages with only one text block, The single paragraph has to carry the entire prefix → root → stem → postfix flow by itself. It starts heavy with prefixes (qo-, ch-, sh-), then move into the core roots and stems (ot, ok, ched), and finish with those shorter postfix endings (-y, -dy, -in).

   
The Zodiac pages follow the same flow, just spun in a circle — outer ring for prefixes, middle for roots and stems, center for postfixes.

The biological section works the same way. Top text uses the markers, the middle shows how things interact, and the bottom captions carry those ending forms. Even the recipe pages do it, just stretched into short lines instead of layers. Everywhere you look, it’s the same progression: prefix to root to stem to postfix. Definition, process, result. The grammar just bends itself to fit whatever kind of page it’s on. The slot-transition math (0.540 × 0.463 × 0.320 = 0.080) holds not just for words but for sentence-level structure as well. Words, sentences, and even full pages all follow the same prefix → root → stem → postfix logic.

Edit: updated the 2 slot herbal page to show how illustrative and resultative zones combine.