单词 | satem |
释义 | satem /sah"teuhm/, adj. belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds /s/ or /sh/, developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian. Cf. centum2. [1900-05; < Avestan satam hundred (c. L centum; see CENTUM2), exemplifying in s- the outcome of Indo-European palatal stops characteristic of the group] |
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