Examples: cartography card archaeology archetype monarchy legal loyal purse personal cinema kinase car carpenter hippopotamus Mesopotamia dative data date
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Proto-Mon-Khmer *cn₁am

→ Bahnar hơnăm (inherited)
→ Khmer ឆ្នាំ (inherited)
→ Eastern Lawa แนม (inherited)
→ Mon သၞာံ (inherited)
→ Pnar snæm (derived)
→ Vietnamese năm (inherited)
→ Chinese 稔 (cognate)