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 *metan

→ Old English metan (inherited)
→ German messen (inherited)
→ Middle Dutch meten (inherited)
→ Dutch meten (inherited)
→ Old Dutch metan (inherited)
→ Old Saxon metan (inherited)
→ Swedish mått (derived)