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 *pkaaw

→ Bahnar pơkao (inherited)
→ Nyah Kur กาว (inherited)
→ Khmer ផ្កា (inherited)
→ Mon ပ္ကဴ (inherited)
→ Mon ကဴ (inherited)