On 2/22/01,"Gail Moore" <embracer@strato.net> wrote: >....And what in the world does Entriken mean? This is a quick guess. Could be completely wrong. My guess is that Entriken is of Swedish origin. Using the translation dictionary at http://www-lexikon.nada.kth.se/skolverket/swe-eng.shtml We find the following possible sources. From this quick check one might guess the word could mean any of the following. a trick, about trick, or one trick a tricot, about tricot, or one tricot a twilled cloth, about twilled cloth, or one twilled cloth a knitted fabric, about knitted fabric, or one knitted fabric a country, a state, or a land etc. SWEDISH WORD | ENGLISH TRANSLATION en [en:] adv. | about en [en:] ett indefinite article | a, an en [en:] ens pron. | one en [en:] ett numeral | one en [e:n] enen enar noun | juniper trick [trik:] tricket trick tricken noun | trick trikå [trik'å:] trikån trikåer noun | tricot rike [²r'i:ke] riket riken rikena noun | country, state From http://www.yourdictionary.com/ we have that tricot means: tricot Pronunciation: 'trE-(")kO, 'trI-k&t Function: noun Etymology: French, from tricoter to knit, from Middle French, to agitate, hop, ultimately from Old French estriquier to stroke, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English strIcan to stroke -- more at STRIKE Date: 1872 1 : a plain warp-knitted fabric (as of nylon, wool, rayon, silk, or cotton) with a close inelastic knit and used especially in clothing (as underwear) 2 : a twilled clothing fabric of wool with fine warp ribs or of wool and cotton with fine weft ribs