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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 😁
2019년 9월 8일 오후 12:11
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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.
2019년 9월 9일
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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.
2019년 9월 8일
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
2024년 5월 25일
Hello Audun, the word "esligo" doesn't exist in spanish. Could it be name of an alien race of that book?
2019년 9월 8일
Audun
언어 구사 능력
아랍어(이집트), 영어, 노르웨이어, 스페인어
학습 언어
스페인어
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