Etymology

permafrozen

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Today it means: permanently frozen Full definition →

English frozen ← 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. Englishfrozen
  11. English todaypermafrozen

From perma- + frozen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.