No need to contact the Dutch for this one - I assume it's just "carton" with the C replaced with K

Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones.

I would have gone with a creative name like kvm.

French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etc

English, German and Dutch are Germanic.

It is a curious fact that grasshoppers have their ears in their legs. Curious, interesting and as relevant to the discourse as the fact that French is a Romance language. Maybe you intended to respond elsewhere in this thread?

I assumed it was a mild allusion to VirtualBox, which I always call vbox

Could be German as well.

English, Dutch and German are all ... Germanic.

English is the weird one, except for the others.

If a word is the same in italian and in english, 99% of the times it doesn't have german origins.