Re[10]: [tied] Re: The OIT state of the art

At 5:42:25 AM on Saturday, September 20, 2008, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 5:07:26 PM on Friday, September 19, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
>> wrote:

>> [...]

>>> What about the VIth century you previously mentioned ?

>> I've no idea what it is, I'm afraid, but I've no doubt that
>> there is a source containing the word <mariscalcus> that can
>> with some confidence be dated to the 6th century; the
>> editors of the OED are not given to flights of fancy.

> What does OED really say ?

I told you in my first post: that post-classical Latin
<mariscalcus> is attested in the 6th century in the sense
'groom'.

Brian