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Kont in Dutch - English's closest major relative - is very interesting.
Presumably it's cognate with cunt, which reminds me of the different meanings of fanny in UK/US English.
Also Finnish and Estonian both with perse - cool, they're both Uralic so that makes sense. And just below them dirsa seems so similar, despite Latvian being Indo-European. But then along comes their Uralic buddy Hungarian with the utterly dissimilar segglyuk.
Kont is also not the most used, nicest way of saying it. "Billen" is a better match.
I do blame the "why is it so different from English" on "Het Nederlands taalgenootschap", that was an organization that decided that a lot of Dutchified English would be changed to more Dutch terms. So is "Math" changed into "Wiskunde/Rekenen".
Would be gat in flemish dutch tbh. Not kont
Ah, thank you.