Thursday, March 03, 2011

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: PE Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: PE Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

(continued from PA 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 PE originally published at 12 - The Syllable PE : 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 PE plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
 
PE
πρ (pyr). The
hypothetical proto-
Indo-European root is
*peh₂ur "fire".
The Phaistos Disk sign
could be an ancient
torch while the other
signs are braziers.
An Ancient Greek
Image from Wikipedia,
in Athens, Photo by
Giovanni Dall'Orto,
November, 2009.
Cypriot
syllabary

PI
Casserole in a
Brazier, see
image at left.

An old Indo
European root.
FIRE, PYRE, e.g
Latvian UPUR
"offering" (and
kurināt "stoke a fire, burn"
hence Egyptian
hieroglyph KH.)
Linear B


(72)
PE


An ancient
brazier,
cooking
utensil, or
of some kind.

Greek
"fire"

Phaistos Disk

PE

Perhaps a
torch.
Greek
πρ "fire"
Hittite
(paḫḫur)
Old English
fȳr (“fire)
Some think it
is an ox foot.
No similar sign on the
Axe of Arkalochori
4-legged brazier online
Luvian
p viz.
PI oil lamp ?
cf. Latvian piekurināt viz. pakurināt "fire, heat up"
PE
4-legged
brazier

Egyptian
KH

4-legs and
flame, Q7
in Gardiner
Sumerian
PIR
heat,
(clearly a
brazier)

BAR4
oil vessel on
a brazier

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