@CiaraNi 'eng' can mean scary in Dutch, but in (old) landscape typology it can also stand for a (common) field for crops, usually on higher ground with one or more villages at its edge (also called 'enk', by the way). @cassana

@CiaraNi The expression that springs to mind is ‘false friends’, but I’m not sure that covers what you mean.

I agree there should be a word for this, in English, Dutch and Danish.