satem
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of satem
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- (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
- (Indo-European-studies, not-comparable)Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.
- (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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