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 *koŋ

→ Khmer កុង (inherited)
→ Khmer កោង (inherited)
→ Thai โกง (borrowed)
→ Thai โค้ง (borrowed)
→ Thai โก่ง (borrowed)
→ Vietnamese cong (inherited)
→ Chinese 弓 (borrowed)