satem

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5

Definition of satem

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Indo-European-studies, not-comparable)Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.
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adj

  1. (Indo-European-studies, not-comparable)Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.
  2. (alt-of, not-comparable)Alternative letter-case form of satem.

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Etymology

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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