Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

centumization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cen-tu-miza-tion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm Proto-Italic *kəntom Latin centumlbor. English centum Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English centumize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English centumization From centum + -ization or centumize + -ation. Doublet of satemization.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

centumisation (alternative)

Antonyms

satemization

Questions

What does centumization mean?: The sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages.
Where does centumization come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm Proto-Italic *kəntom Latin centumlbor. English centum Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English centumize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English centumization From centum + -ization or centumize + -ation. Doublet of satemization.

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