Language for taxonomic names, redux

[Michael Everson]

Ar fheabhas, a Chaoimhín!

> On 28 Feb 2017, at 21:51, Caoimhin O Donnaile <caoimhin at SMO.UHI.AC.UK> wrote:
> 
> I have just come across an instance myself where it might possibly be useful to distinguish between 'la' on the one hand and 'la-taxon'/'la-linneus' or whatever on the other hand.
> 
> I am compiling a database/network of cognate words, mostly in Celtic languages, and ran into:
> 
>  esox - Latin word used by Pliny to refer to a type of fish in the
>  river Rhine, probably a salmon.  Related to Irish eo, 'salmon'; Welsh
>  eog, 'salmon'; Cornish eghek, 'salmon'; etc.
> 
>  Esox - a genus including the pike and related fish, and _not_
>  including the salmon!
> 
> http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/bunadas/d.php?d=16964