riddle
‘a word game or joke, comprising a question or statement couched in deliberately puzzling terms, propounded for solving by the hearer/reader using clues embedded within that wording’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. ridil, rydel, rydell, ridell, riddel, riddle, redels < O.E. rædels ‘riddle; counsel; conjecture; imagination; discussion’ < Proto-G. redaz < re-dh < rid < ar- < Tamil ār