(continued from TO 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 TU originally published at 41 - The Syllable TU : 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 TU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
| TU “burn slowly, consume in smoke” The Linear B sign may show a plant (pod) used to make candlewicks. A according to were made from plants such as the plantain, Plantago crassifolia, or from varieties of (“Aaron's rod", mullein or common mullein). Ancient Greece. | Cypriot syllabary For TU see DU, where the Cypriot sign better fits. One should note that the Cypriot Syllabary allegedly did not distinguish T, D and TH syllables, but I reserve judgment on that for now. | Linear B (69) TU “burn slowly, consume in smoke” Candlewicks were made of the plant verbascum which grows on Crete. | Phaistos Disk no similar sign Sumerian had no “O”, but maybe a dipthonged UO vowel? The original system thus had only four vowels per consonant, as on the Phaistos Disk -- showing its great antiquity – preceding the more modern Linear B. | No comparable Axe sign __________ Thumb of verbascum clipped from Verbascum thapsus L. see Hippolyte Coste | No Elamite sign known yet ________ Indo- European e.g Latvian DEG “to burn” DEGLIS “wick” Luvian orp TÍ, TA4 candle wick flame smoke | Sumerian DE3 “fire, flame” but see also TAKA Halloran: “to start a fire” Egyptian tKA “candle” |
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