Re: VMs: Re: The VMS "alphabet" and some other issues...

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >I also applied the above to the word beside the Pleaides; EVA <doaro>.
This
> >is al-bahb.
>
> As far as I know the word bahb does not exist in Arabic. The Pleiades
> are thurayya, which is derived from thawr "Taurus", and I do not see
> how one gets Russian baba from <doaro>, short of a polyalphabetic
> cipher. If bahb did exist in Arabic it would have been borrowed into
> Russian as something like bagb or bakhb, and if Arabic had borrowed
> Russian baba, it would have been as "baba" (ba, alif, ba, alif).

Thanks!

That was just the closest I could come from what was available in
Star Names. I didn't think it was right.

Obviously, something is still wrong with the letter values. But the
few hits are encouraging.

Robert

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