oh nuts. i meant to send my answer to the list. martin, would you please do me the kindness of posting it here? thanks. mark by hand --- Martin Wohlert <martin_wohlert at hotmail.com> wrote: > To steal the context from Cracks and Shards: > > > "elvtarsok": Noish-pa cannot think of the Dragaeran word he wants to > describe Kelly's people, in relation to the murdered Franz [Tek52]: > [Noish-pa:] "Well, his people, his -- what is the word? Elvtarsok?" > [Vlad:] "Friends? Associates?" > Noish-pa is never at a loss for words, in any sense. Is Brust doing > something with the first syllable's resemblance to "elves"? > > > I checked an online Hungarian-English dictionary, and found these two > suspects: > elvtárs comrade > and > társak companions > > Regards > /mrtn > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.com/ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail