slon

[Dennis R. Preston]

Not quite David. Slon (elephant) is the rook (or castle). Stick to checkers.

dInIs

PS: Slavists, please do not write in to tell me that the 'l' needs a
line through it (changing it, in Modern Polish, to [w]) and the 'n'
needs an accent mark (to palatalize it).


>_Slon_ is, I believe, the bishop in chess for Russians.
>
>Regards,
>David
>
>David K. Barnhart, Editor/Publisher
>The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly]
>barnhart at highlands.com
>www.highlands.com/Lexik
>
>"Necessity obliges us to neologize."
>Thomas Jefferson-August 16, 1813

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