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Interesting, but most of those exist also in english, many almost exactly.

Paper - A Newspaper Company, Fiberous sheets, Thin covering, to title or register an object, etc.

Monitor - same. Both monitor as in observe/supervise, and the object, also a common title of newspapers.

Fr

Drum - Musical drum, storage barrel, to attract attention, to repeat, a fast beat, a stretched diaphram and its effect, throb.

Magazine - Publication, Bullet cartridge recepticle. ____ Review is common magazine title.

Seems roughly equal honestly. All languages borrow abstractions from simple words as complexity grows.



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