ˈsäd.əm, -ätəm adjective
Etymology: Avestan satəm hundred; from the fact that the initial sound of Avestan satəm (pronounced approximately ˈsätəm) represents an Indo-European palatal stop; akin to Sanskrit śatam hundred — more at hundred
: belonging to or constituting a part of the Indo-European language family in which the palatal stops became in prehistoric times palatal or alveolar fricatives — opposed to centum