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@GabeMoralesVR things like that happen in other languages too, we just care less, because they're less obvious and don't really help to remember the word.
Old version of the post, wrong: For example, "Orient" means "East" because this is the direction one would use to orient themselves with the sun!
Plot twist: "orient" means "east/sunrise side" in Roman. English "to orient" comes from "to make something face East". Because that's how you orient, still.
@nina_kali_nina I had a teacher once tell me that the word "news" comes from the cardinal directions, as it originally meant "tell me the information from the north, east, west, and south." In other words, tell me the information from the surrounding areas.