(continued from DI Luvian Update) -- there is no update at this time for the DO syllable
This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable DU originally published at 46 - The Syllable DU : 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 DU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
DU "slavery, bondage" The tied arms of the prisoner viz. captive on the Phaistos Disc are abstracted in Linear B. and in the Cypriot syllabary, seemingly to represent the term Various terms in the different languages focus on the act of “tieing” the captive or submission, or may denote the latter status of a prisoner,e.g. as a slave. That is why the terms may differ greatly in the dictionaries and lexicons. | Cypriot syllabary � � TU Note: The Cypriot sign for TO is not slanted and has no double slashes right, and thus is surely not to be compared in origin with this sign. | Linear B � �(51) DU For the concept of “tied”, various depictions are used, not all on humans as prisoners or captives. | Phaistos Disk � � DU as a tied man _________ Egyptian | No comparable Axe sign __________ Tied Warriors of Peleset _________ Sumerian The Sumerian has the hand sign and then the rib-like sign DU8 in combination for “captive”, are those rib- like elements “ties”? See last column. | No Elamite sign yet Egyptian Wikipedia: “Keftiu...” Luvian 9 TU tied object | Sumerian ŠU-DU8 „captive“ (hand+tie?) ŠU-DU3 XFTY |
