(continued from DA 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 DE originally published at 43 - The Syllable DE : 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 DE plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
DE διά- through, cut through”" Two types of signs seem to have been used for the concept of “pass through”, “cut through”: One type are siphon or transfer apparatus for wine and other liquids, and the other type is the dagger or knife. The Phaistos Disk dagger sign might be retained in Linear B sign B91, a dagger-shaped object for the concept of “two, but that seems very speculative Sumerian GIR(I) should perhaps be TSIR- as in Indo-European e.g. Latvian CER- viz. CIR- "cut" to describe "cutting (tools)" | Cypriot Syllabary For DE see TE. __________ Ancient Egypt Image found at Apparatus for siphoning wine in Ancient Egypt The apparatus is similar to Linear B signs B 44 (KE)and B 45 (DE). See the syllable KE on this grid for a larger image. | Linear B � � (45) DE "pass through” wine or other liquid transfer apparatus (see column left) | Phaistos Disk � � DE διά-" "to cut through" | No comparable Axe sign Thumb of image of a small sword viz. dagger found at Malia, Crete. Image found at It is dated to ca. 1700 B.C. | Elamite DE Luvian ´ TÁ dagger in hand | Sumerian GIR(I) "to cut, dagger" Egyptian TP (archaic) |
