A Voynich Word List

Here are over 90 words found in the Voynich manuscript transcribed and translated. You can find an ongoing spreadsheet with these words here: Voynich Lexicon

For the transcription alphabet and an explanation of how it was derived, go to Transcription Alphabet and The Handwriting.

For an introduction to this blog, the Voynich manuscript, and the theory covered in this blog, go to Introduction. 

For a discussion on the language candidates for Voynichese and why it appears to be a mixture of Balto-Finnic and Old Norse with some Slavic, go to Language Candidates.

In Finnish, the word elokuu and elokuussa signify August (crop month)

tet: Finnish (personal, dialectal, including Kven) you (plural; in archaic English: ye)

Esaikkaisa, a word found on f23r could be an old spelling of the Sami word Isogaisa meaning superb.

Torup is in fact a name used throughout a region in western Denmark, as follows:

Graphic possibly on the spring thaw

Voynich word	Possible Meaning
Lekker	play (I'm at last taking basic Norwegian and this word is now an absolute no-brainer)
ker	oak/cows/during
alkua	A start, beginning, inception, incipience. (Finnish) Partitive singular form of alku.  From the verb alkaa ‎(“to begin”) +‎ -u. From Proto-Finnic *alkadak, from Proto-Uralic *alka- ‎(“beginning”). Cognates include Mansi овл ‎(ōwl, “head”).
Phes	Name of a nature deity akin to Lagran Madre, la Madre de i dei, Ope (Ops), Cibelle, Vesta, Ceres, Proserpina, and others* Phes - From Proto-Indo-European *bʰehos (compare φάω ‎(pháō), φαίνω ‎(phaínō)). Cognates include Latin iubar ‎(“radiance, light”), Sanskrit ‎(bhās, “light, brilliance”),  ‎(bhāsa, “luster, light”), and Old English basu ‎(“purple”).
keit	heat  (Finnish)
kesom	summer/gather/fallow (related to Proto-Finnic *kesä; Proto-Samic *keasē.)
alem	low
som	which
skei	occurs/occurred
da	when - From Old Norse þá and þó (adverb); and Old Norse þá er (when, conjunction), and German da (because, conjunction)
kei	walk or path (Livonian)
elom	life
som	thus
fer	to go, to travel. From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- ‎(“going, passage”).
kelt	refresh, waken
akeperss (a keperss)	From Middle Dutch keper, from Latin capreus, capreō, from caper ‎(“male goat”), the same metonymy as modern Dutch bok. Cognate with Middle High German kepfer, French chevron.
jelke	do/perform
aller	all
som	thus
som	as
elker	the elk
som	kind (of animals)
je	and
sør	south: from Old Norse suðr, from Proto- Germanic *sunþrą.
ker	during
se	the
jeller	signs
kuut	moon/month - From Proto-Finnic *kuu, From Proto-Uralic *kuŋe. Cognates include Estonian kuu and Hungarian hold.
elei	signals
alem	low
hei	they
som	thus or also
fer	to go, to travel. From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- ‎(“going, passage”).
elkalom	animals
helkei	jingle
ker	during
Ukelei	a fish in Germany/Poland OR a river in Poland called the Ukleja (formerly in Livonia)
el	?
kei	walk
som	that
soi	make a musical sound
kei	walk
kelom	make
elei	gesture/sign
kei	walk
sa?ress	southward

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