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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sa•tem (sä′təm),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguisticsbelonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian. Cf. centum 2.
- Avestan satəm hundred (cognate with Latin centum; see centum2), exemplifying in s- the outcome of Indo-European palatal stops characteristic of the group
- 1900–05
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