(continued from MI 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 MO originally published at 30 - The Syllable MO : 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 MO plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
MO (should be viewed together with MU) Since Sumerian had no “O” vowel, overlap can occur between O and U syllabic elements in terms of concepts, especially here at the M- based syllables. The concepts of “ox(back)” “back” and “middle” may have meshed in the Phaistos Disk sign for MO, leading to the back middle of an ox being depicted there, but an ox head being depicted in Linear B for MU. “divide, distribute” “Divide” as "middle" | Cypriot syllabary � � MO „middle“ Egyptian writes: “Egyptian m, ... represents ME meaning .... 'in the middle of'” | Linear B � �(15) MO “middle” Linear B sign B15 (MO) „middle“ matches sign B12 (SO) “channel “ and B14 (DO) “pipe”, (all Minoan plumbing). The bend in the vertical holding line shows relation. | Phaistos Disk � � MO “ox back” "divided, middle" The Phaistos disk sign combines the ideas of MO “middle” and MU ‘”’back” together and there is no MU on the Phaistos Disk. | No comparable Axe sign __________ The Phaistos Disk sign for MO may show the “back” “middle” of an “ox”, combining concepts used for the MO and MU syllables elsewhere. Luvian note The signs MA1 and MA2 for Luvian shown to the right are the principal signs for the syllable MA in Luvian, while the syllable identified by scholars as MÚ looks like the bow sign used in other scripts for MA. There is presumably a linguistic explanation. | Elamite MO divided distributed Luvian "divided ?" MA1 in Luvian is a wild antelope ? Ö or M | Sumerian MI3 “middle” MAL3 unknown meaning “side” ? Latvian mala Sumerian AMA “wild ox” |
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