Re: Stacking up on standard works

At 8:09:43 AM on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Tavi wrote:

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

>>>> 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

You're a mindreader?

> and besides he quoted it bad, because it has a geminate
> -tt-.

In fact Med.Lat. has <ratus>, <rattus>, <rato>, and
<raturus>. OE has <ræt>, and OHG has both <rato> and
<ratte>. The oldest attestations are mostly non-geminate.