ovyje

javě `manifestly, openly, clearly' [adv];

avě `manifestly, openly, clearly' [adv]

áve `in reality' [adv];

jáve `in reality' [adv]

ovyje (DP) `in reality' [adv]

IE meaning: apparently

Certainty: +

Comments: OLith. ovyje `in reality' is sometimes regarded as a borrowing from Slavic but there are no compelling arguments for this view. The absence of initial j- rather points in the direction of an etymological relationship, cf. jovnai `openly', which is a borrowing from Belorussian. In that case we would have to start from a PBSl. i-stem *āv-i- (cf. Anikin 1998: 21, see also s.v. javiti). On the other hand, it seems possible that the form ovyje, whose oldest attestations are two occurrences in Daukša, is based on Church Slavic (j)avě. The Slavic adverb in turn may have been borrowed from Iranian (Lubotsky p.c.).

Skt. āvíṣ `apparently, noticeably' [adv];

Av. auuiš `apparently, evidently' [adv]

javiti `show, reveal' [verb];

aviti `show, reveal' [verb]

javít' `show, display' [verb], javljú [1sg], jávit [3sg]

jawić (obs.) `show' [verb]

jáviti `inform' [verb], jȃvīm [1sg];

Čak. jå̑vȉti (Vrgada) `inform?' [verb], jå̃viš [2sg];

Čak. jāvȉt (Vrgada) `(se) greet, answer' [verb], jãve [3sg]

jáviti `announce' [verb], jávim [1sg]

ovytis `appear' [verb], ovijasi [3sg] \{1\}

\{1\} Lith. (arch.) ovytis `appear' derives from the i-stem which must underlie ovyje `in reality'. Fraenkel (I: 519) claims that ovytis `appear; rage' and Latv. âvîtiês `talk nonsense, get up to mischief' are inherited words cognate with óvaidas (< *avi-vaidas) `rowdy, braggart', while Lith. jė́vaidas (< *jeva-vaidas) `ghost' and Latv. jàvîtiês or jâvîtiês `to behave like an idiot' are borrowings from Slavic (see also Anikin: 22). I am not convinced that this solution, which seems to rely exclusively on the presence or absence of j-, is correct. Moreover, it is not obvious that ovytis `appear' and ovytis (also jõvytis) `rage' are cognates. It seems quite possible that Lith. óvaidas must be connected with Ukr. (dial.) jávida `devil', Ru. (dial.) jávidь `snake'.