单词 | eveck |
释义 | † ˈeveck Obs. Also 6 evecke, 6–7 evick(e. [Of unknown origin; not connected with L. ibex. The Welsh ewig, earlier ewic, means a sort of deer; but Canon Silvan Evans informs us that it was sometimes used vaguely; if this word was adopted into Eng. Higgins may have been misled by the fancy of an etymological connexion with ibex.] (See quots.)
1585J. Higgins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 50 Ibex..a kind of wild goate, and supposed to be that which they call the euecke. 1601Holland Pliny viii. liii. I. 231 Among them [the goats kind] you shall haue the roe bucke, the shamois, the wilde goat called the Eveck [L. ibices]. c1611Chapman Iliad iv. 122 The evicke [αἴξ ἄγριος] skipping from a rock. |

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