I am not a linguist and have no formal education in the subject – just an enthusiast.
There are many theories on how the Indo-European languages branch from each other – this is one of them.
The tree model itself has flaws because it doesn't strictly represent reality where there are borrowings, linguistic influence from proximity (sprachbunds), and a host of factors that complicate a clean model.
In other words take this with a huge grain of salt.
Posted by BeltQuiet
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would work on font – make font size bigger, maybe thicker. Extremely hard to read. Gave up in 10 seconds.
Doesn’t pass the smell test to me.
It is ‘akis’ in modern Lithuanian too.