From: Aigius
Message: 38806
Date: 2005-06-20
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Aigius" <segijus@...> wrote:word
> > --- 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
> > POTEnglish
> > > Lithuanian word RAUDONAS, meaning RED, > RAUDON > RAUD >
> > > word REDWORTH
> > > 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
> > Lithuanian word SIUNTË, meaning SENT, > SIUNT > English word SENTDzukian word IN, meaning IN, > English word IN
> >
> > Regards, Aigius
>
> One more: Lithuanian word MINTIS, meaning MIND, > MINT > English
> word MIND
>
> Regards, Aigius