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An interesting Czech entry would be "karma".

It sounds like the ancient Indian word for fate/consequences, but it is a synonym for normal household gas heater, and the etymology is KarMa = Karel Macháček, name of the engineer whose corporation produced them in former Czechoslovakia. This guy (Czech only):

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Mach%C3%A1%C4%8Dek_(kons...



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