Where does “adivinar” come from?

adivinar (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish adevinar, from Latin addivināre, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

adivinar (Spanish): to guess; to divine, to foretell

Definitions

  1. to guess; to divine, to foretell

Ancestry of “adivinar”, step by step

adivinar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Spanish adevinar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishadevinar
2Latinaddivināre
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-un-, non-, not
5Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via Old Portuguese adevinnar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portugueseadevinnar
2LatinAdtoward, to
3Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
4Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
5LatinolleArchaic form of ille
6Proto-Italic*olnosthat

Words derived from “adivinar

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Latin ad-