Examples: cartography card archaeology archetype monarchy legal loyal purse personal cinema kinase car carpenter hippopotamus Mesopotamia dative data date
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Proto-West Germanic *mārī

→ English mere (inherited)
→ Old English mære (inherited)
→ German Mär (derived)
→ Middle Dutch mare (inherited)
→ French mérovingien (mention)
→ Dutch mare (inherited)
→ Old Dutch mari (inherited)