Satemization

Quick meaning: Satemization is a noun meaning (Indo-European studies) The sound change by which palatovelars became fricatives and affricates in satem languages.

Meaning

(Indo-European studies) The sound change by which palatovelars became fricatives and affricates in satem 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

• satemisation

Antonyms for satemization

Common opposites include centumization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include assibilation, satyrisation, nasalisation, lemmatization, satirisation, fricatization.

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