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Kuše: crossbow / kuš: shut up (cz)
Kuş: bird (tur)

were they pronounced differently in the past, or in some other dialects?

That's an interesting map of Europe. The one of what different languages call "Germany".

The Romans conquered Gaul (which is now France), but stopped at the Rhine. They called the wild land beyond the Rhine "Germania".

Modern Italian, Modern English, the Celtic languages of the British Isles (except Welsh), and Russian all use the ancient Roman word (some variation on "Germania").

However among the dozens of barbarian tribes of Germania there was one little tribe that lived right on the banks of the Rhine (right near the subjects of Rome in Gaul) that became trading middle men between deeper Germany and the Roman Empire called the "Alamanii" tribe. So the Roman subjects of Gaul (who spoke a vulgar type of Latin) who traded with this tribe came to refer to all the land beyond the Rhine as "Alamagne". And now all modern speakers of Romance languages other than Italian use a variant of THAT name. In modern French, Spanish, Portugese, and Catalan, they use the vulgar Latin word derived from the name of the Alamanii tribe rather the proper Latin word derived from the word Germania (as the Italians do). Interestingly the Welsh also us a word similar to Alamagne for Germany. And the Welsh are descended from the Britons who were subjects of Rome. The other Celtic groups (Scots and Irish, who were beyond the boundary of the Roman Empire) use the English word "Germany" that was a learned borrowing from Latin.

Russian also uses "Germania" but the other Slavic languages all use a variant of the Polish word "Niem" which (as someone explained above) means "someone who cant speak right" . That is "someone who cant speak Slavic". Slav itself means "people of the word" (ie speak our language). However later in the middle ages Slavic people often became the victims of the Byzantine Slave trade. And our word for "Slave" derives from the middle ages Greek word for slave which derives from the proud name their slaves called themselves "Slavs". But I digress.

The Finnish and Estonian words for German both seem to derive from "Saxon" (the Saxons were a German tribe).

The Scandanavian words are all variants of "Tysk" which is probably related to "Duit" and or "Deutsch" and to "Dutch". Words that ultimately derive from the extremely ancient Germanic word for "the people" ( from which "Teuton/Teutonic" derives, and which is also related to the "Teutha" which is what the modern people of the Scottish Highlands who still speak the Scottish Gaelic are called). .

English mortgage and Spanish mortaja (‘shroud, winding sheet for a corpse’).

our word "mortgage" literally means "dead hand" in French. The law puts its "dead hand" on you to pay a long term debt.

So the Spanish term is in fact related to the similar sounding English word.

Kinda like the two funny false frends within English which really arent false friends: "continent", and "incontinent". Lol!

The word for a geographic landmass (like North America, Eurasia, Australia, etc) and the word for the condition that requires you to buy Attends, and Depends, are in fact related. Both words derive from "continue" in the sense of being able to "hold it together". A landmass is contiguous and person who...well you get the idea!

I was looking for a nice pic for this one, but no luck.

Well, if you see the phrase proper client on a sign to separate the stuff you’re buying at the supermarket from that of other people, it doesn’t necessarily mean the other customers are less than you, only you being distinguished as a proper one—it could just be Catalan for ‘next customer/client’.

English taunt and Spanish tontear (‘to behave in a silly way’ or ‘to flirt’). The lexemes are pronounced as closely as phonetics allows; -ear is a common Spanish suffix to turn a noun or adjective (in this case, tonto, ‘dumb, stupid, silly’) into a verb, so adding it is often equivalent to just using the word as a verb in English.

dunno if anyone mentioned Albanian "piçkë" pronounced as "peach" which means "lady's garden"

and "kar" - gentleman's sausage

In fact, tentar exists in modern Spanish, with basically the same meaning as its Norman French cognate

Esperanto laŭ (‘according to’) and Basque lau (‘four’ as a numeral, ‘flat, level’ or ‘plain, simple’ as an adjective, and ‘simply’ as an adverb). Prounounced the same. In Esperanto, two vowel letters (a, e, i, o or u) together always represent a hiatus; you need the breve sign on top of the u to mark it as forming a diphthong with the a.