Before revision: Duenna English-speaking cultures supposed, perhaps correctly, that the institution was particularly strict in southern Europe, especially in Spain, to which they attributed the word duenna, an Old Spanish spelling (ñ evolved from one nwritten above another ) of the modern Spanish word "dueña".The Spanish word dueña was supposed to denote a particularly eagle-eyed supervisor of unmarried females.
After revision: Duenna English-speaking cultures supposed, perhaps correctly, that the institution was particularly strict in southern Europe, especially in Spain, to which they attributed the word duenna, an Old Spanish spelling (ñ arose as a ligature of nn; the tilde was shorthand for the second n, written over the first ) of the modern Spanish word "dueña".The Spanish word dueña was supposed to denote a particularly eagle-eyed supervisor of unmarried females.