(continued from KE 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 KI originally published at 54 - The Syllable KI : 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 KI plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
KI These signs represent leather or an animal skin, hide or bag. "leather knapsack" κέρκος "tail of an animal" (pelt ?) κῶας "fleece", which is found in the terms of other languages in the wider sense of „animal skin, pelt“ as in the Sumerian KUŠ or Indo- European e.g. Latvian KAŽoks or Russian | Cypriot syllabary: � � KI The lower horizontal line is the ground. The upper parts could represent a bag with a closure. | Linear B � �(67) KI animal skin bag with a closure (korykos) "leather knapsack" | Phaistos Disk � � KI animal hide, skin, pelt "fleece" Russian „pelt“ Latvian “pelt” | No comparable Axe sign _____________ Egyptian is read as DCHR or DHR meaning “leather” whereas alone is used as a determinative for “leather” etc. Egyptian Gardiner V19 cognate with Greek κώρυκος ? | Elamite “sack with contents?” KI _______ Luvian Q KWI KWA | Sumerian KUŠ Luvian KI “sack with contents” confused with RI ? or one sign? |
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