Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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Ar fheabhas, a Chaoimhín! > On 28 Feb 2017, at 21:51, Caoimhin O Donnaile <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages