Where does “addivinà” come from?
addivinà (Neapolitan) comes from Spanish adivinar, from Old Spanish adevinar, from Latin addivināre, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
addivinà (Neapolitan): to guess by an unqualified conclusion
Definitions
- to guess by an unqualified conclusion
Ancestry of “addivinà”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | adivinar | to guess; to divine, to foretell |
| 2 | Old Spanish | adevinar | — |
| 3 | Latin | addivināre | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |