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Stát is a Czech verb that mean ‘to stand’, but it has also taken on the meaning of the noun ‘state’, both of which are easy to see but their journeys are nonetheless interesting.
Člověk is a compound word that was slapped together a long time ago during the Proto-Balto-Slavic period and the first half of ‘člověk’ (čeleď) is related to the English word ‘shoal’ as in a ‘shoal of fish’.
Vědět (to know) is connected both to vidět (to see) in Czech and ‘wit’ in English meaning ‘intellectual ability’ and ‘to know’; the latter verb form is now largely obsolete.