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  • adjective linguistics permanent, stative, maintaining the same state

Etymologies

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From Latin permaneo

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Examples

  • Dr. Langdon also omitted to copy the statement on the edge: _4 sú-si_, i.e., "240 lines;" and in the colophon he mistranslates _sú-tu-ur_, "written," as though from _satâru_, "write," whereas the form is the permansive III, 1, of _atâru_, "to be in excess of."

    An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891

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