27-03-2026, 10:15 AM
I should add this:
It is interesting to note that with the code: d = sibilants, a = a / o, ii as multiple diphthongs or a single vowel (e.g., “u”), and n = n, we arrive at a frequency of approximately 3.5% in standard Middle High German recipe texts.
daiin+dain comes to: 2.57%
However, there are of course many possible variations of the code, so this isn’t a realistic comparison. So I’m still very much at the beginning here.... it is and remains difficult. But one must understand that daiin is not a single word, but a word plus an ending and possibly a middle part.
The German word “sein” (to be) appears in several other words and stands alone. But that would not explain the frequency by a long shot. That’s why there must be a cipher involved, but I can’t say yet exactly what it looks like.
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As I mentioned earlier, this project is "work in progress". And the goal isn’t to directly decipher the text, but rather to get closer to a decipherment and to verify whether the hypothesis that VMS might be Bavarian has sufficient statistical evidence.
It is interesting to note that with the code: d = sibilants, a = a / o, ii as multiple diphthongs or a single vowel (e.g., “u”), and n = n, we arrive at a frequency of approximately 3.5% in standard Middle High German recipe texts.
daiin+dain comes to: 2.57%
However, there are of course many possible variations of the code, so this isn’t a realistic comparison. So I’m still very much at the beginning here.... it is and remains difficult. But one must understand that daiin is not a single word, but a word plus an ending and possibly a middle part.
The German word “sein” (to be) appears in several other words and stands alone. But that would not explain the frequency by a long shot. That’s why there must be a cipher involved, but I can’t say yet exactly what it looks like.
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As I mentioned earlier, this project is "work in progress". And the goal isn’t to directly decipher the text, but rather to get closer to a decipherment and to verify whether the hypothesis that VMS might be Bavarian has sufficient statistical evidence.