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 *piʔ

→ Arem pê (inherited)
→ Nyah Kur ปีʔ (inherited)
→ Khmer បី (inherited)
→ Mon ပိ (inherited)
→ Vietnamese ba (inherited)
→ Vietnamese bây (inherited)
→ Mang peː³ (inherited)