Can a word’s history reveal a cultural meaning that gets lost in translation?

Have you ever come across a word whose historical origin explains a cultural meaning that its modern definition doesn’t fully capture?
I’m interested in cases where knowing a word’s etymology changes how we understand it, especially when translating it into another language.
Does preserving a word’s historical or cultural associations matter in translation, even when those associations are no longer obvious to modern speakers? I’d love to hear examples from different languages.

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