satem
Meaning
Adjective
- referring to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.
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Origin
- Borrowed from Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 ("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.
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