Re: Germanic - Balto-Slavic connections?

From: Aigius
Message: 38774
Date: 2005-06-19

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
> I read somewhere that the language group most linguistically
> closest-related to Germanic was Balto-Slavic. What kind of
connections
> support this?

Can this fit here:

Old Prussian word KAILAS, meaning HELLO, > Proto Germanic word
HAILAZ > German word HEIL > English word HELLO
Lithuanian word PUODAS, meaning POT, > PUOD > POD > English word POT
Lithuanian word RAUDONAS, meaning RED, > RAUDON > RAUD > English
word RED
Lithuanian word GELTONAS, meaning YELLOW, > GELTON > GELT > German
word GELB
Lithuanian word SKARDIS, meaning SCARP, > SKARD > English word SCARP
Lithuanian word KARDAS, meaning SWORD, > KARD > KORD > English word
SWORD
Lithuanian word GARDAS, meaning LOOSEBOX > Gotic word GARDAZ
Latvian word LATA, meaning LATH, > English word LATH
Latvian word VINDA, meaning WINDING > English word WINDING
Lithuanian word VELTI, meaning TO FELT, > VELT > English word FELT
Lithuanian word SËDËTI, meaning TO SIT, > SËDËT > SËD > SID >
English word SIT
Lithuanian word SHIRDIS, meaning HEART, > SHIRD > HIRD > HEARD >
English word HEART
Lithuanian word NOSIS, meaning NOSE, > English word NOSE?

Regards, Eigius