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 connection with ibex.]
(See quots.)
1585. J. Higgins, trans. Junius’ Nomenclator, 50. Ibex…. A kind of wild goate, and supposed to be that which they call the euecke.
1601. Holland, 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].
1611. Chapman, Iliad, IV. 53/122. The Euicke [αἴξ ἄγριος], skipping from a rocke.
