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satem.

Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.

    Indo-European-studies · not-comparable
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm, “hundred”). The canonical example of a word that changed Proto-Indo-European palatovelar */ḱ/ into sibilant /s/ by the 3rd millennium BCE, as opposed to Latin centum (“hundred”). Doublet of hundred and centum.

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