Etymology

centumization

C3E1N1T1U1M3I1Z10A1T1I1O1N1

Today it means: The sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages. Full definition →

English centumize ← Latin centum ← Proto-Italic *kəntom
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱm̥tóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kəntom
  4. Latincentum
  5. Englishcentum
  6. Englishcentumize
  7. English todaycentumization

From centum + -ization or centumize + -ation. Doublet of satemization.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.