Definitions
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- adjective Designating those Indo-European languages, including the Indo-Iranian, Armenian, and Balto-Slavic branches, in which original palatal velar stops became fricatives (as k' > s or š) and labiovelar stops became plain velars (as kw > k).
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- adjective linguistics referring to a
Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.
Etymologies
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The Slavonic languages, like Persian and the Indo-European languages of the Indian sub-continent, are in the satem group, so the Russian word for hundred begins with an sound, its first vowel has disappeared, the corresponds to the in the middle of the
Surprising etymology 2005
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The Slavonic languages, like Persian and the Indo-European languages of the Indian sub-continent, are in the satem group, so the Russian word for hundred begins with an sound, its first vowel has disappeared, the corresponds to the in the middle of the
Surprising etymology 2005
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While the correct centum-satem correspondence between Greek -k- and Sanskrit -ś- is reassuring, it by no means validates the reconstruction.
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It's also pointless to eternally ponder on the vagueness of terms like "language" and "dialect" because in the end we're now refocusing our reconstruction efforts towards elucidating former feature boundaries eg. the satem area.
The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009
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While the correct centum-satem correspondence between Greek -k- and Sanskrit -ś- is reassuring, it by no means validates the reconstruction.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Petusek: "Also, notice that the Common Kartvelian '4' is reconstructed as *otxo- (resembling a centum-like source) by some and *os1txw/o- (resembling a satem-like source instead) by others."
A possible relationship between 'four' and 'eight' in PIE 2008
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Things get more complicated if one ponders a scenario where budding Anatolian dialects are affected by the Satem wave in the north of the Anatolian area and later on provide the basis for satem-like results in Luwian by way of dialect mergers and such.
Diachrony of PIE 2008
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However Tocharian shows palatalization nonetheless and I suppose I should explain myself better in the pdf that I'm also including satem-like areal influence as well.
Diachrony of PIE 2008
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Sanskrit, being a satem language, fronted all *k's to palatalized *ḱ according to this new interpretation afterall.
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Also, notice that the Common Kartvelian "4" is reconstructed as *otxo- (resembling a centum-like source) by some and *os1txw/o- (resembling a satem-like source instead) by others.
A possible relationship between 'four' and 'eight' in PIE 2008
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