(continued from KO Luvian Update)
This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable KU originally published at 56 - The Syllable KU : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
If I have found no comparable Luvian syllable in mainstream sources, there is no update posting for that syllable. This applies particularly to syllables with the vowel "O", which predecessor Sumerian did not have (apparently also not in Luvian). Syllables with the vowel "E" are alleged by Luvian scholars not to have been used for Luvian, though I think otherwise. My research indicates that also Luvian had "consonant plus vowel E" (or similar sound) syllables and I include them if I have been able to identify them (provisionally, of course, subject to ultimate confirmation).
Each syllable will be presented in its own posting.
There is first a scanned image of a "syllabic" grid excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.
The original text follows -- the links there are clickable -- but embedded fonts or images may be missing because Blogger does not pick them all up from Microsoft Word, so use the scanned image for those.
The Syllable KU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
KU trimmed "trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off) cultivated area” The common concept here seems to be land cleared for agriculture” and use of the land for planting or the resulting stumps for furniture. Very speculative for Linear B if the sign is not a chair: maybe here someone thought to place youth and age abstracted side by side as a cane right, and left pregnancy with foetus? woman" | Cypriot syllabary � � KO a stump chair Thumb of stump chair image clip at | Linear B � �(81) KU Tree trunk as a chair ? Thumb of stump chair at | Phaistos Disk � � KU "trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off) _______ Indo- European e.g Latvian Lith. kuokas “wood” | Axe of Arkalochori � � or� � KU Variants of a plant sign, one also with roots (they could be 2 different signs) Egyptian (archaic) K3NW “garden” K3NY “gardener” | No Elamite sign yet _______ Luvian q KU “field” Û currently read as I(A) ?? | Sumerian KUR3 “cut” KI+RU5 “orchard, plantation” field plus plant and root |
