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

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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 😁

8 Thg 09 2019 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.

9 tháng 9 năm 2019

I just went ahead and sent an email to

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I received this reply from Dave Pinto at Customer Support:

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

The name doesn't have any meaning!

Here's a segment of the English version of the story:

"...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."

In short, esligo in Spanish means the same thing as Sliwoh in English: a made-up name for an imaginary creature.

8 tháng 9 năm 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

25 tháng 5 năm 2024