Re: The OIT state of the art

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> 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'.

I think the OED refers here to the fact that the term mariscalcus
('horse-groom', a loan from Frankish) is attested in Latin in the
Lex Salica, which was redacted during the reign of the Frankish king
Clovis I in the early 6th century CE:

http://tinyurl.com/486q7u
http://tinyurl.com/4kmuu7

Regards,
Francesco