Sorry, Greg, I seem to have missed your request about the Finnish for 'lish' in July. But now that I read the additional information by Lynn & Martin, I can give you a better equivalent than would have back then. I certainly would use 'sorea' (or soria / sorja, dep. on dialect), since it carries practically all the faetures listed in the thread, even though - or perhaps because - it sounds somewhat oldish and poetic. In July I probably would have given 'sievä' or 'soma', both meaning 'lovely, fair, neat etc.', but neither of which have 'flexible or lissome' connotations:-)

AKS