evene

verb /ɪˈviːn/

1. To occur; to happen; to come to pass.

   obsolete

   What would evene, if an eagle that is carried by the course of the wind, should let a stone fall from its talons.

   1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two).

Where it comes from

From Latin ēveniō (“happen, fall out, come out”), from ē (“out of, from”) (short form of ex) + veniō (“come”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry evene (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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