Examples: cartography card archaeology archetype monarchy legal loyal purse personal cinema kinase car carpenter hippopotamus Mesopotamia dative data date
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Proto-Semitic *wa

Akkadian u (inherited)
Arabic و (inherited)
Aramaic ו־ (inherited)
Ge'ez ወ- (inherited)
Hebrew ו־ (inherited)
Maltese u (derived)
Classical Syriac ܘ- (inherited)
Ugaritic 𐎆 (inherited)