Que es un esligo?
<div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is a quote from the book:</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Can please somebody explain, what is a esligo? </div><div><br></div><div>Gracias por la ayuda 😁</div>

<div><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 27);">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.</span></div>

<div>I just went ahead and sent an email to</div><div><br></div><div>olly@iwillteachyoualanguage.com</div><div><br></div><div>I received this reply from Dave Pinto at Customer Support:</div><div><br></div><div><em>You're correct in thinking that the word is an invented word, specifically for the story.&nbsp;</em></div><div><br></div><div><em>The name doesn't have any meaning!</em></div><div><br></div><div><em>Here's a segment of the English version of the story:</em></div><div><br></div><div>"...<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></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>

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

<div>Hello Audun, the word "esligo" doesn't exist in spanish. Could it be name of an alien race of that book? </div><div><br></div>

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