centumize

English

Alternative forms

• (British spelling) centumise

Etymology

From centum +‎ -ize.

Verb

centumize (third-person singular simple present centumizes, present participle centumizing, simple past and past participle centumized)

1. (Indo-European studies) To convert a palatovelar to a plain velar in a centum language.
   • 2001, Iahanshah Derakhshani, “Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 5, →DOI, page 9:

     The linguists generally proceed from a centum mother language of the “Indo-Europeans”, from which the satəm dialects have de[s]cended. Some indications speak, however, in favour of the reciprocal phonetic changes, i.e. a satəm original form, centumized later.

   • 2022 December 14, John Clayton, “Labiovelar loss and the rounding of syllabic liquids in Indo-Iranian”, in Indo-European Linguistics, →DOI, page 46:

     [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.

   • 2023, Jaakko Häkkinen, “On locating Proto-Uralic”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, number 68, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 52:

     However, it is questionable whether we could distinguish even the centumized or satemized consonants from the Late Proto-Indo-European consonants through the Uralic filter: […]

Derived terms

• centumization