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    19 hours ago

    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.”