jovnai

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]