Re: Germanic - Balto-Slavic connections?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Aigius" <segijus@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Aigius" <segijus@...> wrote:
> > --- 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
>
> Also:
>
> Lithuanian word KARPIS, meaning CARP, > English word CARP
> Lithuanian word VERTAS, meaning WORTH, > VERT > English word WORTH
> Lithuanian word SIUNTË, meaning SENT, > SIUNT > English word SENT
>
> Regards, Aigius

One more: Lithuanian word MINTIS, meaning MIND, > MINT > English
word MIND

Regards, Aigius