Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- 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.
>

Anyway, Trask intended this word to belong *Classical* Latin and besides he quoted it bad, because it has a geminate -tt-.