Meanings
alternative centumisation
- Indo European studiesuncountableThe sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages.
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[footnote:] For instance, if one reconstructs satəmization, the merger of *K and *Kʷ, as an innovation that defines a clade (approx. Thraco-Armeno-Daco-Albano-Balto-Slavo-Indo-Iranian), then the other remaining Indo-European branches must independently undergo centumization as they branch off at higher nodes. Each of these individually centumizing higher clades (Anatolian, Tocharian, Italo-Celtic, and Germanic) represents undesirable homoplastic innovations.
2022 December 14, John Clayton, “Labiovelar loss and the rounding of syllabic liquids in Indo-Iranian”, in Indo-European Linguistics, →DOI, page 46Antonyms: satemization
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱm̥tóm
- Proto-Italic*kəntom
- Latincentum
- Englishcentum
- Englishcentumize
- Englishcentumization
From centum + -ization or centumize + -ation. Doublet of satemization.
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