"hell" in German means "light" (as in light colored).

Southeast Asia. He's Malay(one of the race in SE Asia) and he told me these words that has diff. meanings once you say it to a Malay:

Air- Oxygen/Atmosphere(English) / Water(malay)


Another example is the word gift, which in English and Dutch means a "present" but in German and the Scandinavian languages means "poison".