(continued from LA 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 LE originally published at 48 - The Syllable LE : 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 LE plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
LE ἐλαία "olive". Linear B sign B27 is read in error as RE. Scholars suggest a two-way use of RE to also represent LE, e.g. alleging that the Greeks on Crete wrote re-u-ka instead of le-u ka for WHITE, or re-wo instead of le-wo for LION or re-po-to instead of le-pot-to (lepto) for thin. That analysis does not hold water. The syllable RE is actually LE. | Cypriot syllabary � � LE | Linear B Read in error as RE. � �(27) LE ἐλαία "olive" � �(122) (archaic ? or some other sign - unclear) | Phaistos Disk � � LE „the olive“ The Linear B sign is an abstract of the archaic Phaistos Disk sign. | No comparable Axe sign __________ Thumb of “the olive” from the Wapedia. Egyptian � � The LILY is the plant determinative | Elamite LE “olive” ? Luvian L LA should be LE “olive” | Sumerian LE4 “a plant top” LI2 “oil vessel” LI “fine oil” |
