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

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

(continued from SU 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 MA originally published at 27 - The Syllable MA : 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 MA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

MA Archaic Greek ἄεμμα, ἅμμα, "bowstring, bow". Thumb of Greek Archer from the NYPL Digital Library

Cypriot syllabary � � MA a bow ? The vertically reversed sign is the syllable WA -- the front ae in ἄεμμα ?

Linear B � �(80)MA A bow drawn back. Outer lines mark the drawn bow, and two arcs the hand grip.

Phaistos Disk � � MA ἄεμμα ἅμμα (archaic Greek) "bowstring, bow"

No comparable Axe sign A modern drawn bow with stress marks as on the Linear B sign. An Indo-European origin for Pharaonic mšw is as e.g. Latvian meš-ana "throw(ing), hurl(ing)"

Elamite MA a bow Luvian MÚ bow+hand

Sumerian MHE See Ryan e-MAR-RU arrow quiver Egyptian bow archer MSHA