Meaning of centumize | Babel Free

Definitions

To convert a palatovelar to a plain velar in a centum language.

Indo-European-studies

Examples

“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.”

“[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.”

“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: […]”

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