Satem

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Designating those Indo-European languages, including the Indo-Iranian, Armenian, and Balto-Slavic subfamilies, in which original palatal velar stops became fricatives (as k' > s or š) and labiovelar stops became plain velars (as kw > k).
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  • adj. referring to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.
    • Word Usage
    "The Slavonic languages, like Persian and the Indo-European languages of the Indian sub-continent, are in the satem group, so the Russian word for hundred begins with an sound, its first vowel has disappeared, the corresponds to the in the middle of the"
    Antonym
    centum   
    Form
    satemisation   
     
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