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Satem

Satem

See also: satem

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Adjective

Satem β€Ž(not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of satem

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satem

satem

See also: Satem

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Adjective

satem β€Ž(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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Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 β€Ž(satΙ™m, β€œhundred”), the canonical example of a word that changed Proto-Indo-European palatovelar */αΈ±/ into sibilant /s/ by the 3rd millennium BCE, as opposed to Latin centum β€Ž(β€œhundred”).

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