(continued from MO 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 MU originally published at 31 - The Syllable MU : 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 MU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
MU (should be viewed together with MO) (For "bow" etc. see MA) 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. | Cypriot syllabary � � MU For Sumerian MURGU “back” see also Indo-European e.g. Latvian muguru is an inflection | Linear B � � (23) MU “ox head” Egyptian M(J)R Gardiner #F20 Latvian mēle “tongue” | Phaistos Disk no similar sign. _______ If more texts of the type on the Phaistos Disk turned up, then MU here would surely be about the same as the Elamite sign. | No comparable Axe sign __________ Based on my decipherments the Old Elamite symbol to the right was used to show the deceased both pictographically and syllabically. Luvian note One MU sign in Luvian clearly depicts an ox. MU The MU sign to the right is sometimes shown "empty". Maybe it is a bow quiver for arrows | Elamite MU “back, on one’s back, laid to rest, deceased” Luvian 4 Scholars read “ox” (body+ribs) | Sumerian MUR7 MURGU “back” Sumerian AM AMA means “wild ox, bull” |
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