Re: Stacking up on standard works

At 4:32:04 PM on Monday, April 16, 2012, Tavi wrote:

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

>>> Also an asterisk is used before forms unattested in Latin.
>>> So when Trask (who was a professional linguist) writes Lat
>>> RATONE or Lat. rato:ne(m) he's *explictly* meaning this is
>>> an attested Latin word, something which is utterly false.

>> On the contrary, <rato, raton-> is well-attested in
>> post-classical Latin.

> No sir, this is a substrate loanword *ratto 'rat' found in
> Romance, Germanic and Celtic since the High Middle Ages.

And in post-classical Latin, which includes medieval Latin.