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Hi Everyone,

I am wondering if anyone can identify this word. I've put a fair bit of time into it without success:



Many thanks in advance!


M.

What is the context in which you found this?

Depending on the language, it looks like it could possibly end in -ßert, (with a German 'double-s') but, of course, that's only a guess.

Regards,

What language is it in? Italian, German, French?

Could it be Cyrillic? Ж & Б etc.? If German it could end ßelt as well; that first part's the bugger though Mit ßelt & Mit zelt could both sort of work...um...it depends on what's written above it and the idiom of the writer...any other details around it would be *infinitely* useful

Maybe it's part of the signature of the German poet, Friedrich Rückert whom Schubert and Mahler (among others) set to music.

We do need more information, more context.

Regards,

Yes, more context please. What comes just before that word? There seems to be something else above it.

I think everybody's been a little bit too mild on this.

Michael, why in the world would you ask this without giving context?

(And actually that's pretty mild too!)

I appreciate the responses and am sorry about not having given the context - I can see how that was not helpful, yet knowing the context might be part of what is getting in the way of me figuring out the word and I am hopeful that someone observing it outside of the box of the context might be able to see readily what it is. It is from a project list in my handwriting and mostly of composer last names with a few composition titles included. The line right above is Grieg but I don't know of any Grieg work with a title that ends in "eit" - there is "Eit Syn", Op. 33 no. 6, which begins with "eit". It looks like the final five characters might be "fseit".


M.

Is it English script or Fraktur?

Michael: Hopefully you realize the humor or irony (or whatever) in what Damon highlighted.

In any event it would have been helpful (I suppose helpful is the word) for you to have explained all of this in the first post.

BTW the closest I personally can come is "grapefruit."

Best thing to do in a case like this, I think -- where we can't read something that we wrote, no matter how hard we try: Don't worry too much about it.

Do you mean YOU wrote that word and that you don't recognize your own handwriting? This occasionally happens to me at the supermarket with my shopping list!

Thanks Mark. You are right about this, and of course as implied the discovery of the word's identity isn't important in the big scheme of things.


M.

I get what you are saying about the shopping lists. Mark indicated that this word resembles "grapefuit" - maybe this experience just is an indication that I need more vitamin C!


M.

I think it says "Rhinbuit."

To economize on time usually I write really fast whether it is words or music notation and don't worry about the appearance. At least it doesn't seem to be an abbreviated word or one with some vowels deliberately left out. You are are right, it does look a bit like Fraktur!


M.

For me it takes a good amount of known words to get into someone's handwriting.

You have more lines of text of the same writer? (you??)

What's the price for the best bet?

Schubert.

There are sketches in cursive for some essay work - non-cursive seems to be reserved for lists and other non-expressive writing which is, though of forensic relevance, probably not of any other interest here such as in the case of grocery lists.

I can offer some free lessons on how to make print handwriting more legible for anyone who figures out the word. This might of course be a bit daft


M.

I looked at the Lyric Pieces for something that ends in "t". Sie tanzt?