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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Indo-European studies) The sound change by which palatovelars became fricatives and affricates in satem languages..
[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.
Use satemization when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Satemization means (Indo-European studies) The sound change by which palatovelars became fricatives and affricates in satem languages..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include centumization.
[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.
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