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Old Spanish
Etymology
From adeuinar (“to guess, solve”) + -ança.
Pronunciation
Noun
adeuinança f (plural adeuinanças)
- riddle
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 82r:Nó podieró adeuinar eſta palabra por .iij. dias. e aldia ſeptimo. dixieró ala mugier falaga to marido e digat la adeuinança ⁊ tu dila anos. e ſi nó metremos fuego por toda eſta uilla.- For three days they could not solve his word. And on the seventh day they said to the wife, “Entice your husband to explain to you the riddle and tell it to us, otherwise we will set fire to this entire household.”
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