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Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to stay
 * 2)  to sit
 * 3)  to settle
 * 4)  to live
 * 5)  to have been

Verb

 * 1) to be (past tense)
 * 2) to live, to reside