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The Latvian languages are renowned among linguists for preserving some features of PIE especially well.

Some forms of Egyptian also seem closer to Latvian than other languages:

๐“‹ด ๐“ ๐“ ๐“ฎ ๐“‚ป||run|skriet@LAT+++ spurt/scourt/escort courant scout (courier) โ‡” Schritte๐“‚ป

while the word beard '๐“๐“ƒ€๐“Šƒ๐“…ฑ๐“๐“ธ' contains the letters _b_๐“…ฑd for beard, the other letters so far were inexplicable.
The situation looks much less dire in Latgalian:

๐“ ๐“ƒ€ ๐“Šƒ ๐“…ฑ ๐“ ๐“ธ||beard|< ๐“ƒ€๐“Šƒ๐“…ฑ๐“โ‹๐“bzvd'โ‹buorzda@ Latgalian ๐“Šƒ๐“…ฑ๐“ โ‹ เคธเคพเคฅ sฤth

drink ๐“‹ด๐“…จ๐“‚‹๐“‡‹๐“€ GER.ti
drink ๐“๐“๐“ˆ— dkr/dger โ‹ GERti < Tiger/Tigris?
dgert โ‡” durst

to live: Gyventi > GENE ...
to know: ism < iลกmanyti < wis.man.do / wisdom < weise.tun / Waฤซstun <3 !!!

๐“‹ณ Garment matches fine ๐“‹ด+๐“ +๐“ˆ–+๐“, however Latvian offers a different reading:
๐“‹ณ suknelฤ— : s+gmn+nil < ๐“‹ด+๐“ +๐“ˆ–. We have yet another totally different order in a similar word
๐“ ๐“ˆ–๐“๐“๐“‹ณ Mรถnchskutte? same signs

These may be puns, dialectic readings, or just different words with the same 'root' letters.

Also see https://github.com/pannous/hieros/tree/master/dicts/swadesh/BALTIC.csv

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