Note 189 — II 1325-1521

1911 ed., p. 117: Ichoa (= Blind). The fact that no other name is given shows that then as now Basques were known by their nicknames. The same name figures in ‘Pierre Loti’s’ Ramuntcho (1897): Itchoua. In the sixteenth century Martim Ichoa and João de Ychoa appear among the moradores of King Manuel’s household (1518). The substantive ichó (= armadilha), derived from ostiolum, is used by Diogo Fernandez Ferreira (Arte da Caça) and Garcia de Resende (Cron. João II).