Spanish: sortearEnglish translation: divine 
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Social Sciences - Anthropology / Indigenous belief systems | | Spanish term or phrase: sortear | This is a translation of an Aymara text to English via Andean Spanish. The translation literally has to do with "seeing the future by reading leaves" - do we have a verb like this in English?!
Here's the Spanish, as spoken by an old man whose does not speak Spanish natively:
Despues ellos han ido el brujo hacerse sortear "donde está mi hijo." Mirando atraves de la coca, el brujo asi siempre sabia aqui salian vacas en esas pampas...
The context is a folktale.
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| | Clarification request(s) and responseMatt Coler: 12:41pm Mar 7, 2008: Maybe 'to divine"? Or is this more for water?
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| | divine | Explanation:
* S: (v) divine (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)
* S: (v) divine (search by divining, as if with a rod) "He claimed he could divine underground water"
Address : <http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=divine>
Also:
sortear verbo transitivo
1 (un obstáculo, peligro) to avoid, get round, overcome: tuvimos que sortear muchos peligros, we had to overcome many dangers
2 (echar a suertes) to draw lots for
(rifar) to raffle (off)
Address : <http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=sort...
The casting of lots is a common technique of devination.
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Note added at 59 mins (2008-03-07 13:39:45 GMT)
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Divine is a general term for the act of clairvoyance, as in to divine the future. It is not used exclusively or mainly for looking for water, which is technically known as dowsing. The dowser typically uses a divining rod. |
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jules_sieg
Mexico
| Note from asker to answererThanks a lot! I just felt unsure if divining can be used for leaves, etc - and not just water. Cheers -
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| divine
Explanation:
* S: (v) divine (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)
* S: (v) divine (search by divining, as if with a rod) "He claimed he could divine underground water"
Address : <http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=divine>
Also:
sortear verbo transitivo
1 (un obstáculo, peligro) to avoid, get round, overcome: tuvimos que sortear muchos peligros, we had to overcome many dangers
2 (echar a suertes) to draw lots for
(rifar) to raffle (off)
Address : <http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=sort...
The casting of lots is a common technique of devination.
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Note added at 59 mins (2008-03-07 13:39:45 GMT)
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Divine is a general term for the act of clairvoyance, as in to divine the future. It is not used exclusively or mainly for looking for water, which is technically known as dowsing. The dowser typically uses a divining rod.
| jules_sieg
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 4
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks a lot! I just felt unsure if divining can be used for leaves, etc - and not just water. Cheers - |
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