satemization

English

Alternative forms

• (British spelling) satemisation

Etymology

From satem +‎ -ization or satemize +‎ -ation. Doublet of centumization.

Noun

satemization (uncountable)

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

   Antonym: centumization

   • 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.