satem

See also: Satem

English

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Etymology

Borrowed 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.

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satem (not comparable)

  1. (Indo-European linguistics) referring to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.

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