eve

• n.イブ；前夜；夕方；大きな出来事の節目

even（夕方）から、誤ってnを落としたもので、語源的にはevensong（夕方）と同じ。

eve (n.)

c. 1200, eve "evening," especially the time between sunset and darkness, from Old English ?fen, with loss of terminal -n (which, though forming part of the stem, perhaps was mistaken for an inflection), from Proto-Germanic *?bando- (cognates: Old Saxon aband, Old Frisian ewnd, Dutch avond, Old High German aband, German Abend, Old Norse aptann, Danish aften), which is of uncertain origin. Now superseded in its original sense by evening.

Specific meaning "day before a saint's day or festival" is from late 13c. Transferred sense of "the moment right before any event, etc." is by 1780. Even (n.), evening keep the original form.

Eve

fem. proper name, Biblical first woman, Late Latin, from Hebrew Hawwah, literally "a living being," from base hawa "he lived" (compare Arabic hayya, Aramaic hayyin).

Like most of the explanations of names in Genesis, this is probably based on folk etymology or an imaginative playing with sound. ... In the Hebrew here, the phonetic similarity is between hawah, "Eve," and the verbal root hayah, "to live." It has been proposed that Eve's name conceals very different origins, for it sounds suspiciously like the Aramaic word for "serpent." [Robert Alter, "The Five Books of Moses," 2004, commentary on Gen. iii:20]

1. リチャードとトニーはクリスマスイブに一緒に姿を現した。

2. Eve walked briskyly down the corridor to her son 's room.

イブは軽快に廊下を通って息子の部屋に来た。

3."Send her away，" Eve said in a cold，hard voice.

「彼女を追い出して」イブは冷酷に言った。

4. Eve ，squinting at the clock，saw it was just on 7 a.m.

イブは目を細めて時計を見たが、差は朝7時ではなかった。

5. Eve isn 't the type to sit around doing nothing.

イブはそこに座ってごろごろするのが好きな人ではありません。