Examples:
cartography
card
archaeology
archetype
monarchy
legal
loyal
purse
personal
cinema
kinase
car
carpenter
hippopotamus
Mesopotamia
dative
data
date
...
English
merit
←
Middle English
merit
(inherited)
←
Middle English
merite
(mention)
←
Spanish
meritar
(cognate)
←
French
mérite
(cognate)
←
French
mériter
(cognate)
←
Middle French
meriter
(derived)
←
Old French
merite
(mention)
←
Old French
merite
(derived)
←
Old French
meriter
(derived)
←
Old French
merite
(mention)
←
Ancient Greek
μέρος
(cognate)
←
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)mer-
(root)
←
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)mer-
(derived)
←
Italian
meritare
(cognate)
←
Latin
meritum
(derived)
←
Latin
meritus
(mention)
←
Latin
mereō
(mention)
←
Latin
meritāre
(cognate)
←
Old Occitan
merit
(cognate)
→
English
earn
(link)
→
English
meretricious
(mention)
→
English
meritocracy
(affix)
→
English
meritocrat
(affix)
→
English
meritless
(suffix)
→
English
meriter
(suffix)
→
English
meritory
(suffix)
→
English
overmerit
(prefix)
→
English
meritable
(suffix)
→
English
immerit
(affix)
→
English
meritmonger
(compound)
→
English
premerit
(prefix)
→
English
meriteth
(suffix)
→
English
meritest
(suffix)
→
English
meritious
(suffix)
→
English
Meritage
(blend)
→
Cebuano
Merit
(derived)
→
Japanese
メリット
(borrowed)
→
Kazakh
меритократия
(derived)
→
Romanian
merit
(link)