adiviñar

• adaviñar, adeviñar, adoviñar, aduviñar
• adivinhar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese adevinnar, adevỹar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ad + dīvīnāre (“foretell”). Compate Portuguese adivinhar, Spanish adivinar and French deviner.

• IPA^(key): /aðiβiˈɲaɾ/

adiviñar (first-person singular present adiviño, first-person singular preterite adiviñei, past participle adiviñado)

1. to guess

   Synonym: acertar

   Adiviña que hai na caixa. ― Guess what is inside the box.

   • c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker, editor, Historia Troyana, page 106:

     Et en ponto que o fezo, soubo adeviñar por que lles vjña tal tormẽta.

     And as soon as he did that, he correctly guessed why that storm was coming for them

2. to divine, foretell

   Synonyms: predicir, prever

   Vou adiviñar o seu futuro: alguén quere os seus cartos. ― I'll foretell your future: someone wants your money.

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 246:

     Eu sey moyto de adiujñar, atãto que nõ sey home ẽno mũdo que atãto sábea, et ey moytas cousas ditas que seýrõ todas uerdade, et nũca cousa dixe que uerdade nõ fosse et todo assý nõ o uisse, nẽ ja mays nũca adiuiñey cousa en que falesçesse.

     I know much about divination, as much that I know no one in the world who knows as much as I do; and I have said a lot of things that became all true, and never I said a thing that wasn't true, and never I foretold something and failed

• “adevy_ar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “adiuiñ” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “adiviñar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “adiviñar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “adiviñar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “adiviñar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012