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Khuld is translated: everlasting, eternity, and also immortality. This word can refer to both living or non-living creatures. For example consider two Ayah below, in which Khuld referes to non-livings things:

Then it will be said to those who had wronged, "Taste the punishment of eternity; are you being recompensed except for what you used to earn?" - Yunus 52

Say, "Is that better or the Garden of Eternity which is promised to the righteous? It will be for them a reward and destination. - Al Furqan, 15

And this is an example of the reference to living people:

Allah will say, "This is the Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness." For them are gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever, Allah being pleased with them, and they with Him. That is the great attainment. - Al Maidah 119

Yamut means dies and La Yamut means does not die. They can be used only for living things, because dead or aliveness do not make sense for non-living objects. Allah is the only one who does not die, so La Yamut can be used only for Allah:

Everyone upon the earth will perish * And there will remain the Face of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor. - Al Rahman 26, 27