| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sa·tem |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  sä t m |
| ADJECTIVE: | Designating those Indo-European languages, including the Indo-Iranian, Armenian, and Balto-Slavic subfamilies, in which original palatal velar stops became fricatives (as k' > s or  ) and labiovelar stops became plain velars (as kw > k). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Avestan satm, hundred (a word whose initial sound illustrates the change). See dek in Appendix I.
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