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"otohime" is how to pronounce one of the terms of address for the second daughter of the first Kamakura shogun. The Second daughter, hence, the "younger princess".

The Japanese word for sound is also pronounced "oto". So, a device which makes noise to help you be discreet...

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Plus oto- is a Latin prefix meaning ear. Multilingual puns are the best!

Interesting. I wonder how Japanese and Latin both ended up using 'oto' for an auditory related word.

Not sure on that, without invoking some vague talk about universal language mumble Chomsky mumble mumble. It could be by chance, but things like the kiki-bouba experiment suggest that the dice loaded, at the very least.

But things that look like cognates with Japanese do exist. Notably そう ("sou") is pronounced the same as English "so" and means roughly the same thing, at least in phrases like "is that so?" and "Make it so, Number One."

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