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satem Philol.|ˈsɑːtəm|
Also satəm.
[f. Avestan satəm hundred, from its pronunciation with (s), as opposed to centum: first used by P. von Bradke 1890 in Über Methode und Ergebnisse der avischen Alterthumswissenschaft i. iv. 63.]
A name given by philologists to one, chiefly eastern, group of Indo-European languages, distinguished by their use of sibilants where the corresponding sounds in cognate words in the western group (cf. centum) are velar stops.
1901, etc. [see centum]. 1933L. Bloomfield Language xviii. 316 Many scholars suppose that the earliest traceable division of the Primitive Indo-European unity was into a western group of so-called ‘centum-languages’ and an eastern group of ‘satem-languages’. 1952O. R. Gurney Hittites vi. 119 The main characteristics of the Indo-Iranian (or so-called ‘Satem’) languages (change of original k to s, qu to k, and e and o to a). 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 3 The time when the back velar stops moved forward in satem languages. |