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Audun
Que es un esligo?
Hello! I'm reading a book by Olly Richards. It's called "Spanish short stories." In one of the text there is a creature called esligo, but I don't understand what this is.

Here is a quote from the book:
Ari tenía 80 años. Sin embargo, no era humano . Ari era un esligo con cabello largo y blanco. Tenía los dedos largos y arrugados. Ari era muy joven... para ser esligo. Comparado con los humanos, era un adolescente.

Can please somebody explain, what is a esligo?

Gracias por la ayuda 😁
Sep 8, 2019 12:11 PM
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The author of the book writes "un esligo habla como un humano pero no es un hombre real", so it looks like it's a fictional creature that pretends to be a human.
September 9, 2019
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I just went ahead and sent an email to


I received this reply from Dave Pinto at Customer Support:

<em>You're correct in thinking that the word is an invented word, specifically for the story. </em>

<em>The name doesn't have any meaning!</em>

<em>Here's a segment of the English version of the story:</em>

"...<em>Ari was a eighty years old. He was not a human though. Ari was a Sliwoh with long white hair. His fingers were long and wrinkly. Ari was very young... for a Sliwoh. Compared to humans, he was a teenager."</em>

In short, <em>esligo</em> in Spanish means the same thing as <em>Sliwoh</em> in English: a made-up name for an imaginary creature.
September 8, 2019
For everyone in search of the answer: there is a picture in the book on the page 60 which depicts "un esligo" riding a horse. Someone short with a bird's beak instead of a mouth, haha
May 25, 2024
Hello Audun, the word "esligo" doesn't exist in spanish. Could it be name of an alien race of that book?

September 8, 2019