(continued from ME 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 MI originally published at 29 - The Syllable MI : 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 MI plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
MI Some signs show vessels or containers. Greek μόργος leather vessel or μάρσιπος a pouch to carry infants. Elamite and Sumerian seem to use a concept of “dark” for their signs. The Phaistos Disk has both concepts in a dark “shaded “ vase so the terms for dark and vase should be similar. For a harvest basket see also Grape Escapes | Cypriot syllabary � � MI A vessel on the ground. In the Cypriot signs, the horizontal line below seems to mean "earth", i.e. the surface. See Luvian MI3 | Linear B � �(73) MI pouch, basket from Luvian E A (an error?) | Phaistos Disk � � MI amphora Crete | No comparable Axe sign __________ Sumerian and Elamite may vary in concept. For comparison thus Sumerian MUD MA-SÁ “basket” Indo-European e.g. Latvian maiss ”sack” muca “cask, vat, barrel” murds “fish basket, trap for lamprey eels (nēģis)” | Elamite MI dark, reed basket ? Luvian j MI 3 | Sumerian MA3 MASA “basket” ME2 dark, black |
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