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

→ Bahnar kră (inherited)
→ Semai engraaq (inherited)
→ Vietnamese già (inherited(vi/mkh-mvi))
→ Vietnamese già (inherited)
→ Vietnamese sá (inherited)
→ Vietnamese đường (cognate)
→ Vietnamese đường sá (inherited)
→ Chinese 路 (cognate)
→ Mang ʑaː¹ (inherited)