Examples: cartography card archaeology archetype monarchy legal loyal purse personal cinema kinase car carpenter hippopotamus Mesopotamia dative data date
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Catalan llei
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s (inherited)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (mention)
Proto-Italic *lēg- (inherited)
Latin lēgem (inherited)
Latin lēx (mention)
Old Occitan ley (inherited)

Portuguese lei (cognate)