satem

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别名

Satem

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

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

词源

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.

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