Re: The OIT state of the art

At 6:21:42 PM on Saturday, September 20, 2008, Francesco
Brighenti wrote:

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

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

[...]

>>> 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

Thanks; that seems very likely.

Brian