I too will be as happy and carefree as Kirby in the clouds someday

In addition, the German language does not really differentiate between turtles and tortoises: both are called “shield toads”, but if you want to be more specific, you can say “water shield toads” or “land shield toads”, respectively.

That was also roughly the time when seemingly every pop song that was played in the radio had to have a drop in the middle of the track

If I remember correctly, words that are basically linguistic cousins are called cognates