permafrozen

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Piece of cake? her mind screeched. Piece of ten-million-year-old permafrozen glacier, maybe."
"Pingos form by the penetration of unfrozen but saturated sands to the surface through a layer of permafrozen ground."
"With the very long winter, permafrozen soil, and low evaporation, the soil is waterlogged."

Etymology tree Latin per- Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *m̥néh₁yeti Proto-Italic *m(V)nēō Latin maneō Latin permaneōlbor. Middle French permanentbor. English permanentclip. English perma- English frozen English permafrozen From perma- + frozen.

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