• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    I can read “help,” “groups,” and “drive” in the word, but I don’t know the others.

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      Hilfe – help
      Leistung – action (closest translation for this context)
      -s- to make it sound less awkward
      Lösch – root of the verb “extinguish”
      Gruppe – group
      -n- to make it sound less awkward (Gruppen being the plural, is incidental)
      fahr – root of the verb “drive” or “go” in the context of vehicles Zeug – basically “thing”; hence Fahrzeug = vehicle

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        It’s no coincidence that two of the words I recognized are cognates in English. “Fahr” I knew because I was always amused by the phrase “Gute Fahrt!”

        EDIT: I just realized there are still remnants of “fahr” cognates in English, such as in “wayfarer.”