Talk:vatrax
Latest comment: 2 years ago by This, that and the other in topic RFM discussion: September 2021–March 2022
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I think vātrāx (“with crooked feet”) should be moved to vatāx. It was emended by Cochorius because it was supposedly derived from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”)[1] and the old dictionaries took it over.[2] The newer editions have vatāx[3][4] and so do newer dictionaries.[5][6]
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “vatāx”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 737
- ^ “vatrax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ [[1]]
- ^ [[2]]
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “2. u̯āt-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1113
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “Vatāx”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Moved. I would have just gone ahead and done it honestly. This, that and the other (talk) 03:34, 4 March 2022 (UTC)