Centumization

Quick meaning: Centumization is a noun meaning (Indo-European studies) The sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages.

Meaning

(Indo-European studies) The sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages.

Example Sentences

[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.

Word Forms

• centumisation

Antonyms for centumization

Common opposites include satemization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cacuminalization, cacuminal, ich-laut, cent, centripoise, cis-centrism.

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