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Word: Satem
Speech Type: Noun
late 19th century; earliest use found in Classical Review. From German Satem, denoting a group of languages from Avestan satəm hundred, chosen as an example of a word reflecting the distinctive phonological feature of this group of languages
Designating a group of chiefly eastern Indo-European languages having sibilants (as in Avestan satəm) where cognate words in the western group have (voiceless) velar plosives; relating to or characteristic of this group. Contrasted with centum.
- satəm
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