Latvian,Lithuanian cognates to Slavic languages

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Hello

I have noticed,that on internet is quite hard to find a large list of cognates,from core language,of Latvian and Lithuanian with Slavic languages.
So,knowing that we have some Latvian and Lithuanian speakers,that might also speak Russian,if they would be so kind,to show some closed words.
 
Heart,head,hand,foot,eye,ear,nose,mouth,finger
,stomach
 
Ok,let me use google translate than:
English Lithuanian/Latvian Belarussian/Russian
heart širdis serca(bel)
head galva glava(rus)
hand roka/ranku ruka(bel)
foot - not a cognate
eye - not a cognate
Shall be continued :)
Would be really interesting to see cognates between Old Russian and Latvian/Lithuanian :)
Maybe it turns out that Slavs are just a forgery,in fact is a Balto-Slavic elite that conquered natives and imposed their language.
After,Iranic and Germanic people came over these conquered Balto-Slavic people and this is how proto-Slavic was born.
 
Proto-BS; Lithuanian; Latvian; Proto-S; OCS; Russian
1) Heart
N/A; širdis; sirds; sьrdьce; srĭdĭce; serdce
2) Head
*galwā; galva; galva; golva, glava; golova
3) Hand
*rankā; ranka; roka; rǫka; rǫka; ruka
4) Foot
No cognate. Latvian pēda is cognate to Italian pede, and possibly even related to Hittite pēdan, which means place.
Although there is probably this cognate for Russian pjata, Slovenian peta, and Old Prussian (Baltic) pentis.
5) Eye
*ak-; akis; acs; *oko; oko; oko
6) Ear
*auš-; ausis; auss; *uxo; ouho; uho
7) Nose
N/A; nosis; nāss; *nosъ; nosъ (носъ); nos -- here Baltic is nostril, Slavic is nose.
8) Mouth
No Cognate.
9) Finger
*pirstas; pirštas; pirksts; *pьrstъ; N/A; perst
10) Stomach
No real cognates, but curiously both language groups have similar words with semantically close meaning.
Baltic languages
Stomach = vedaras, vēders
in Slavic there is vedro which means bucket :)

Slavic languages
Stomach = zhivot (probably from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ (compare Lithuanian gyvatà (“life”))
in Baltic there is gyvoti, dzīvot (to live).
 
Proto-BS; Lithuanian; Latvian; Proto-S; OCS; Russian
1) Heart
N/A; širdis; sirds; sьrdьce; srĭdĭce; serdce
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Also note the Satemization here. Equivalent Centum language cognates include Latin cordis, Greek καρδία (kardia), and English heart (via Grimm's law).
 

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