Examples:
cartography
card
archaeology
archetype
monarchy
legal
loyal
purse
personal
cinema
kinase
car
carpenter
hippopotamus
Mesopotamia
dative
data
date
...
Old English
wǣron
→
English
were
(mention)
→
English
weren
(inherited)
→
Middle English
were
(inherited)
→
Middle English
weren
(inherited)
→
Scots
war
(mention)