English

a-vie

From a- + vie.

Formed from a- + vie

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Latin invītō ‘to invite, summon’

Old French envier

Middle English envien

English vie

Today it means

adv In rivalry.

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