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English translation: Elves: electric red flashes


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Spanish term or phrase:duendes
English translation:Elves: electric red flashes
Entered by: Patricia Baldwin
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03:59 Feb 6, 2004
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space / Aerospace / Aviaiton / Space
Spanish term or phrase: duendes
Cantidad de duendes que integran una formación aérea.
Adriana Torres
Local time: 22:42
Elves: electric red flashes
Explanation:
duendes:
Flashes eléctricos rojos

elves:
electric red flashes

Hola Adrito,
Si bien mi granny irlandesa preferiria a los fairies y elves, leperchauns,fays, pixies, pucks, dwarfs,gnomes and goblins proper...

... aquí -en tu contexto de la fuerza aerea- se trata de flashes o destellos eletricos rojos: los esquivos duendes y elfos que danzan en las nubes de tormenta en la mesofera, tambien sobre las nubes de tormenta.

En la siguiente webpage te ilustran sobre duendes: flashes electricos rojos (elves: electric red flashes) avistados desde el Columbia.


Mucha Suerte en tu tradu...y por si acaso...dejale alguna miguita de pan cerca de tus tesauros y diccionarios a los fairies...just in case!

Failte
(Salud en Gaelico Irlandes)
Patricia.

Ref: duendes (vistos desde el Columbia)
www.holahoy.com/internet.nsf/All/pg046892.htm

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otro webpage
articulo de la NASA, \"duendes\": bajo el titulo:La mision...

wwww.2.diarioelpais/03/02/01/ultmo_28208.asp

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webpage en inglés: \"elves\" electric red flashes:

www.holoscience.com/news/print-pages/balloon_print.html

www.aip.org/pt/vol-54/iss-11/p.41.html

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HI ADRITO

I meant \"Slainte\" : \"Health\" in Irish....
yet I wrote \"Failte\"
which means \"welcome\"...ah the good ol´Irish hospitality...sorry for this lapsus linguis.
..maybe my secret wish to travel to the Esmerald Isle for a nice vacation.....
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Patricia Baldwin
United States
Local time: 18:42
Grading comment
I think this is the right answer. Thanks to all of you for your help!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5gnome/goblin/elf/fairies
Miroslawa Jodlowiec
4 +1fairies
Gerard Michael Burns
4 +1Elves: electric red flashes
Patricia Baldwin
5phantomsJane Lamb-Ruiz
4goblins / elvesxavi65


Discussion entries: 2





  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
fairies


Explanation:
Unless this is some very special slang:
"Duende" is variously translated in English, and can also be "elf" or "dwarf", however, the only such beings considered capable of flight are "fairies".

Gerard Michael Burns
Paraguay
Local time: 21:42
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Giles Bickford
3 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Elves: electric red flashes


Explanation:
duendes:
Flashes eléctricos rojos

elves:
electric red flashes

Hola Adrito,
Si bien mi granny irlandesa preferiria a los fairies y elves, leperchauns,fays, pixies, pucks, dwarfs,gnomes and goblins proper...

... aquí -en tu contexto de la fuerza aerea- se trata de flashes o destellos eletricos rojos: los esquivos duendes y elfos que danzan en las nubes de tormenta en la mesofera, tambien sobre las nubes de tormenta.

En la siguiente webpage te ilustran sobre duendes: flashes electricos rojos (elves: electric red flashes) avistados desde el Columbia.


Mucha Suerte en tu tradu...y por si acaso...dejale alguna miguita de pan cerca de tus tesauros y diccionarios a los fairies...just in case!

Failte
(Salud en Gaelico Irlandes)
Patricia.

Ref: duendes (vistos desde el Columbia)
www.holahoy.com/internet.nsf/All/pg046892.htm

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Note added at 2004-02-06 09:37:49 (GMT)
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otro webpage
articulo de la NASA, \"duendes\": bajo el titulo:La mision...

wwww.2.diarioelpais/03/02/01/ultmo_28208.asp

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Note added at 2004-02-06 09:48:51 (GMT)
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webpage en inglés: \"elves\" electric red flashes:

www.holoscience.com/news/print-pages/balloon_print.html

www.aip.org/pt/vol-54/iss-11/p.41.html

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Note added at 2004-02-06 10:03:02 (GMT)
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HI ADRITO

I meant \"Slainte\" : \"Health\" in Irish....
yet I wrote \"Failte\"
which means \"welcome\"...ah the good ol´Irish hospitality...sorry for this lapsus linguis.
..maybe my secret wish to travel to the Esmerald Isle for a nice vacation.....

Patricia Baldwin
United States
Local time: 18:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 11
Grading comment
I think this is the right answer. Thanks to all of you for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  xxxOso: Maravillosa respuesta con estela de estrellitas ***** ¶:^)
14 hrs
  -> Hola ColOso!Qué linda sorpresa! Un agrí suyo es siempre un gran honor. Cariños y hugz!
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
goblins / elves


Explanation:
duende sustantivo masculino1 (= elfo) goblin; elf
2 (= encanto) magic
tiene duende it has a certain magic


xavi65
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
gnome/goblin/elf/fairies


Explanation:
Que es duende? (Lupe Sabugo), something
like a goblin/elf/gnome..

... His new image resembled a gnome, but only on the surface. ... Intuition.
No one had believed her, until Duende confirmed it months later

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Honduras This Week Cultural

... Another menace for little children is the duende or gnome. A girl in Coxen Hole\'s
central park claimed that one night they could not find her younger sister. ...

http://www.marrder.com/htw/sep96/cultural.htm

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Gnome Named Gnorm, A Claudia Christian, Anthony Michael Hall, Jerry Orbach Un duende
desea impresionar a una mujer haciendo algo heróico, y para ello roba ...

http://tntla.turner.com/Schedule/Search/1,,|1|~~~~~~,00.html... - 35k

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... My Larousse Spanish-English dictionary translates \"duende\" liberally
as \"gnome, elf, goblin and/or leprechaun\". Though the later ...

http://www.guidenicaragua.com/newsletter/update_nicaraguaSep...

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... duende (Bogle, elf, elfin, hob, imp, leprechaun, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite ... familiar,
Goblin, spook, sprite), gnom (elf, fairy, gnome, sprite), drãcuþor ...

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english...


    Reference: http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=50086
    Reference: http://www-shgc.stanford.edu/~flowers/jayhawk/032.html
Miroslawa Jodlowiec
Local time: 02:42
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
phantoms


Explanation:
as in fighter jets..

sin contexto las cosas más raras passan

Jane Lamb-Ruiz
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16
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