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

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

(continued from LI 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 LO originally published at 50 - The Syllable LO : 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 LO plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

LO λοιβ-ή λείβ-ω "pour liquid, fluid, libation" λεῖος “smooth, even” λεαίνω “smooth, polish, grind” (i.e. using applied, running or poured water, liquid or fluid for this purpose) Sumerian Note: The Sumerian libation sign is virtually identical to the dropping drops Axe sign, while Old Kingdom Pharaonic Egyptian hieroglyhs for libation are similar, retaining the “drops” concept, suggesting the original sign concept may have shown raindrops falling from the firmament above.

Cypriot syllabary � � LO λοιβ-ή __________ Axe of Arkalochori Dartmouth University Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean, , Lesson 25: The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization, writes: “QA-SI-RE-U [quasileus = basileus]: [cont. right]

Linear B Read in error as RO � �(02) LO λοιβ-ή __________ The connection of Linear B QA- SI-RE-U with Homeric basileus meaning "king" is undeniable, but it is equally clear that the Mycenaean quasileus was nothing more than some kind of chief or leader of a small group, in one case a group of bronzesmiths.”

Phaistos Disk no similar sign _______ Sumerian had no "O" and the Phaistos Disc consonants essentially have only 4 vowels viz. vowel- sounds used mostly in the consonant and vowel combination. _______ Egyptian To UAHIT “libation” compare Indo- European e.g. Latvian LĪT “to pour„ ,,to rain“

Axe of Arkalochori � �or� � LO My decipherment of the Axe of Arkalochori reads " βασιλεύ(ς) The overseer of smiths λεῖο- θείνω smoothened ὑπείρo- λεῖο(ς) this super (hyper-) smooth πέλεκυ(ς) axe ἄρχο(ν)τε(ς) (for the) ruler Simple-syllabically that is PA-SE-LA Overseer LO-THI-NE smoothened PA-RU-LO super-smooth PA-LA-KU axe (A)RO-KU-TE for ruler

No Elamite sign yet _______ Egyptian In the Old Kingdom UAH was surely an L (!) even if lost over time. Egyptian UAH grow, increase, or “libation” seems comparable to Indo- European e.g. Latvian LIELs- “big” or LEJ- LĒJU “pour, poured” viz. “LIJA „rained“

Sumerian sign at Ryan LIL3 “slippery” “wet” ? (Jaritz #918) (#908+#823) LIL2 “rain” Latv. LIJA Egyptian UAH Luvian WA8