iOS still has this problem in French on its keyboard, where "return" (for line return) is translated as "retour"... which literally means "return" but in the context of a keyboard, means backspace (on physical keyboards the backspace key sometimes even has "retour" written on it).
I always thought it was for "retour chariot" which makes sense on a typewriter.
chariot = carriage?
I've seen the same thing with Polish, on Linux. I don't remember which desktop environment it was in. Instead of "wolumin" or such, there was "głośńość".