centumizes

Verb

centumize (third-person singular simple present centumizes, present participle centumizing, simple past and past participle centumized)

1. (Indo-European-studies) To convert a palatovelar to a plain velar in a centum language.
   • 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.2001, Iahanshah Derakhshani, “Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 5, →DOI, page 9