This happens a lot in English. English has a lot of meaning drift, even in native words from Anglo Saxon. For example, deer used to mean any animal, but you hav

This happens a lot in English. English has a lot of meaning drift, even in native words from Anglo Saxon. For example, deer used to mean any animal, but you have hound (any dog), meat (any food), fowl (any bird), and many, many more. You even have stuff like wrist, where it means "joint between hand and arm" in English, by vrist in Swedish means ankle. In earlier proto Germanic I believe it meant multiple things and each language just picked something quite randomly.