[davidw]

Looks like 'medus' and 'mead' have the same root, offhand?

[riffraff]

The proto-balto-slavic root for honey is "med", which is why the word for bear is usually some variation of "medved", meaning "honey eater", due to that weird process where something scary becomes taboo and gets replaces with some phrase.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic...

[sanqui]

Indeed. And the Lithuanian word for 'bee', bitė, is also cognate with the English word as per Wiktionary[1].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit%C4%97#Lithuanian