The lists, each containing 120 words, were manually adjusted by removing noncognates by possibly substituting them with etymologically related items, if such could be found, and adding further cognates 3 .
for exam-ple, BG-RU ние-мы (nie-my) 'we' was removed and the BG в р (zvjar) 'beast' instead of ивотно (životno) 'animal' was added to its RU cognate вер (zver') 'animal, beast'.