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Old Prussian
Etymology
Calque of Polish oczywiście, with ackis (“eye”) as the former component.
Adverb
ackijwistu
- widely, publicly
1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 125, line 7:Tyt quoi
tijlaiti ioūs mennei en ſteſſei / deicktan
attrātwei / Sēnku akiwijſti poſinnāts
wīrſt / nokan tāns / Crixtits poſtānai.- So please answer me on his behalf, so that it may be publicly known whereupon he will be baptized.
References
- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “ackijwistu”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 60