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

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

(continued from ZE Luvian Update)

This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllables ZI and ZO originally published at 64 - The Syllables ZI and ZO : 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 Syllables ZI and ZO plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

ZI [the existence of ZO is questioned] χέω “ flow, go, run” χεῦμα “flow, stream, casting (metal), molten” θέω "run (Is θέω derived from χέω in Mycenaen Greek?) Wikipedia on THETA: In Ancient Greek, θ was an aspirated voiceless dental plosive /t̪ʰ/. In Modern Greek it is the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ (as 'th' in “thing”). Sumerian had no “O”,so ZI or ZU roots must be sought. Indeed, I doubt the existence of a ZO syllable in Mycenaean Greek. Classical Greek has few  words starting with either ZI or ZO and Palaeolexicon has no words beginning with Zi or ZO for Linear B in current transliteration.

Cypriot syllabary � � ZO χέω “ flow, go, run χεῦμα “flow, stream” If Zo is ZI/XEW, Sidon, Arabic Saïda, then looks like a possibility for the puzzling anthroponym zo-ta-i-le-wo-se while obscure e-pi-zo-ta is e.g. a-po-zi-ta ἀπόξυσις “sharp points” for weapons

Linear B � � (20) ZO χέω The sign is unclear and speculative as “a torch” “a conical potters wheel” operated by running water or a “molten cast” of metal χυτρεύς “potter” χεῦμα “flow, stream, casting (metal)”

Phaistos Disk � � θέω "run" Egyptian iTi Gardiner V15 “move” Indo- European e.g. Latvian IETI “to go” IESI “will go”

No comparable Axe sign _______ Thumb of an image at Wikipedia “A graphic depiction of an ancient potter's wheel proposed by archaeologist Ștefan Cucoș, based on the findings on Valeni and Ghelăiesti in Romania” Egyptian DJATT “irrigation tunnels”

Elamite θέω running man Luvian T TI “ieti” to go 5 ZI breast but read as “man” ?? perhaps DZI or GI “human” ? (see GI) T TU3 "scribe"

Sumerian HUM, ZUM ”run, flow” (Jaritz #935) IZI, IZIM “fire, hurry” (Jaritz #339) ZI5 (Jaritz #798) Luvian &and Ü I, IÁ