centumization means the sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
From centum + -ization or centumize + -ation. Doublet of satemization.
noun
- The sound change by which palatovelars became plain velars in centum languages.“[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,”