satem

• Satem

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.

satem (not comparable)

1. (Indo-European studies) Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.

   Antonym: centum

• satemisation

• AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, STEAM, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, metas, stame, steam, tames, teams

Borrowed from German Satem.

satem n (uncountable)

1. satem