Satem
adj
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Adjective
- 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
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of satem. alt-of, not-comparable
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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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