evin

evin

1. instructive plural of evä

• vein, vien

• evyn, evyne

From Middle English evene, efene, efne (“ability, nature”), from Old Norse efni (“material, stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *abniją (“material”), from Proto-Indo-European *op- (“to work; income, wealth”). Cognate with Icelandic efni (“content”), Swedish ämne (“subject, substance, material, topic”), Danish evne (“ability”).

evin (plural evins)

1. Matter; subject-matter; substance; means.

evin

1. genitive singular of ev
2. second-person singular possessive of ev