Re: Stacking up on standard works

W dniu 2012-04-17 23:27, Brian M. Scott pisze:

> In fact Med.Lat. has <ratus>, <rattus>, <rato>, and
> <raturus>. OE has <ræt>,

Most likely with word-final degemination (inflected forms are unattested)

> and OHG has both <rato> and
> <ratte>. The oldest attestations are mostly non-geminate.

And the geminate is easy to account for via Kluge's Law. Kroonen (2011)
reconstructs something like PGmc. *raþ-an-/*ratt- (from *rað-n-) or
possibly *rutt- (with a Germanic neo-weak grade)/*rað-en-, normalised as
*ratta- or *rattan- (plus variants with *rutt-,*rað- or even *raþþ-).
The range of variation is typical of an old amphikinetic n-stem.

Piotr