Живой ( jee-voi ) is also a Russian word that means alive. Or in case of Жива ( jee-va ) it is a feminine gender of the present tense.

Gyvas ( Gee-vas ) is the same cognate in Lithuanian. And same as in Russian, Gyva is the feminine gender of the same word.

The root of the word comes down to us all the way from PIE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language