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Danish has "speeder" = accelerator (in a car) and "butterfly" = bowtie. The first has always puzzled me, the last makes me smile.

Italian gave us "i social" to refer to social media in general, and "lo smart working" for working from home.

A bit of digging revealed that wikipedia has a whole page of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-anglicism