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 *slaʔ

→ Bahnar hla (inherited)
→ Khmer ស្លឹក (inherited)
→ Western Lawa ฮละ (inherited)
→ Eastern Lawa ฮละ (inherited)
→ Semai selaaq (inherited)
→ Thavung ซะล้า (inherited)
→ Vietnamese lá (inherited)
→ Chinese 茶 (cognate)
→ Mang laː¹ (inherited)