Etymology

permadeath

P3E1R1M3A1D2E1A1T1H4

Today it means: Permanent death, where the player cannot continue but is obliged to restart the game from the beginning. Full definition →

English death ← Middle French permanent ← Latin permaneō
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The story

  1. Latinper-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*m̥néh₁yeti
  4. Proto-Italic*m(V)nēō
  5. Latinmaneō
  6. Latinpermaneō
  7. Middle Frenchpermanent
  8. Englishpermanentclip.
  9. Englishperma-
  10. Englishdeath
  11. English todaypermadeath

From perma- + death.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.