How to effectively find English cognate(s) for a German word?

Question

Is there a web site where I can directly search for all English cognates of a German word?

Currently, I am using a combination of EtymOnline, Wiktionary and DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache), but I have to dig inside the content and I don't always get the result.

The ideal solution is to see the word evolution in a clickable tree where you can go back and forward in the history in different languages, something like this:

but a plain text tool connecting only German and English is also acceptable :)

I don't think that Is there a website that can list the English cognates of German words?, however sounding similar, gives exactly what I am asking for, however close it is to it. I'd really find useful something more easily searchable.

N.B.

Someone might object that knowing the cognates is not very useful in learning the vocabulary, however I find it highly helpful. Thanks to knowing the cognates I am able to learn the romance languages much faster, in spite of many false friends. The same applies to German and English.

We remember much more if any new piece of information is connected to other pieces which are already in our head, even if we have to add to some connections the "false friend" label. Using the cognates I even remember better the conjugation of irregular verbs, e.g. without knowing drink-drank-drunk I would have hardly remember trinken-trank-getrunken.

Answer 1

Have you tried Appendix:German cognates with English in Wiktionary? It's split into a number of tables (for some reason) according to the sound changes involved, but it might be easier than your current process.

I regard cognates as a convenient memory aid when they exist and have the same meaning, but given that German and English seem to have a larger than expected number of "false friends", and that many German words either have no English cognates at all or have cognates which are very different from the German word, I usually don't put a lot of effort into researching the connections. If you're just trying to learn the vocabulary and not writing a thesis on the history of the two languages, to me it's usually less effort to just memorize the meaning than try to get there with comparative linguistics. The reason I'm mentioning this is that people tend to create websites where there's a demand, and if knowing all the cognates for a given word in German isn't that useful for an average learner then there might not be a lot of incentive for anyone to create the kind of site you're asking for.

In any case trying to pin down what counts as a cognate and what doesn't can get fairly complicated. As a example I looked at "Geschäft" = "shop". DWDS links this to the verb "schaffen" = "to create/make", but the link between these words isn't obvious. But "schaffen" does have a relatively clear English cognate in "to shape", though the meanings are somewhat different. Meanwhile "shop", which looks like it might be a cognate, actually has a different origin and is really a cognate for "Schuppen" = "shed". So is "shape" a cognate of "Geschäft" or not? The modern meanings are very different and connection is tenuous at best, but there is a common ancestor in there somewhere.