CENTUM


Meaning of CENTUM in English

[cen.tum] adj [L, hundred; fr. the fact that its initial sound (a velar stop) is the representative of an IE palatal stop--more at hundred] (1901): of, relating to, or constituting an Indo-European language group in which the palatal stops did not in prehistoric times become palatal or alveolar fricatives--compare satem

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