I actually would not read too much into these. The German language builds heavily composed words. To me intuitively they mean mostly just the translation presen

I actually would not read too much into these. The German language builds heavily composed words. To me intuitively they mean mostly just the translation presented in the post and I would rarely reflect about the origin. There might be slight changes in connotation from the English, but I doubt it says all too much about the German using them (at least I can tell that about me when using the word wehmut). Particularly the stem "mut" is much to ubiquitous and mostly meaningless to the speaker these days. Sure it is interesting but one can also dig into the etymology of any other language...