(continued from PE 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 PI originally published at 13 - The Syllable PI : 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 PI plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
PI (pé) Classical Greek πέλεκυς “pelekus”, a "double-sided" axe (BI-), also single/sided ones i.e. hemipelekus. Some... late neolithic, wanderwörter have been suggested, e.g. Sumerian balag, Akkadian pilakku- (spindle whorl), or PIE pelek'u- 'axe'. Sumerian balag means hour-glass shaped drum. The shape is the word root. (cont.) | Cypriot syllabary (reshuffle PE, PI, PO labels ?) � � PO __________ (cont.) Pelekus will have the same root as pierogi (Latvian pīrags, “*bi-horned, *two horned”). | Linear B � �(11) PI an axe __________ See the perplexed on pelekus. | Phaistos Disk � � PI an axe later as the symbol PHI | Axe of Arkalochori PELEKUS is bottom word on axe middle column. Found at icobase.com a Sumerian balag (hour- glass drum) right bottom "drum" balag (Jaritz #649 | Elamite PI jar, cask Luvian B PU hand axe | Sumerian PO Thumb of hour-glass pithos image at Mathilda’s |
