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A deterministic tool for testing Voynich structural patterns (With balneological)
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(26-02-2026, 02:57 AM)pjburkshire wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is also talking about ensoulment so I would expect the word for soul to also be on that page.  I have often thought about trying to write something that could look for a word that was at least once on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and at least once on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. but at low frequently on the plant pages but I have never bothered.  Can your program do that?

Hi again. I just ran the script, and I reckon the results are pretty interesting!

I told the engine to find every structural root that exists on both You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f82r, and then tally how many times those exact roots appear across the entire 57-folio Herbal section (f1r through f57v).

The engine found 109 shared structural formulas between your two pages. When we filter them by how rare they are in the Herbal section, a few massive outliers jump right to the top.

Here are the best candidates that match your exact profile for a highly specialized, non-plant topic word:
  • "lko"
    • Matches: 2 times on f76v, 1 time on f82r.
    • Herbal Frequency: Only 7 times across 57 entire folios.
    • Context: On f76v, this appears inside the word lkodol. This is a massive anomaly. To have it cluster on your two specific pages but virtually vanish in the Herbal section strongly points to this being a specialized topic word (like a noun), not general grammar.
  • "lky"
    • Matches: 2 times on f76v, 1 time on f82r.
    • Herbal Frequency: Only 20 times.
  • "kor"
    • Matches: 3 times on f76v, 1 time on f82r.
    • Herbal Frequency: 84 times.
    • Context: This appears multiple times in line 1 and 2 of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (okor, korols). 
    • While it appears a bit more in the Herbal section, a density of 3 hits on a single short paragraph (f76v) compared to 84 hits across 57 entire pages makes this a highly targeted word.

How we know the filter worked: If we look at the very bottom of the data list the engine spit out, we see the general Voynich "glue" words. 

For example, the root " dy" (as in chedy, shedy) appears 49 times on f76v, 11 times on f82r, and a staggering 2,295 times in the Herbal section. The root " ch" appears 2,777 times in the Herbal section.

This proves that chedy and qokeedy are general grammatical structures (like "and", "the", or common verb endings) used everywhere, whereas lko and kor are highly specialized topic words.
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RE: A deterministic tool for testing Voynich structural patterns (With balneological) - by TheEnglishKiwi - 26-02-2026, 03:21 AM

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