Packet 4: Bonus 18

A palatalized Proto-Indo-European consonant at this primary place of articulation became the Proto-Iranian fricative *ϑ (“theta”) and, when clustered with r, later became a mysterious sibilant transcribed as ç (“C with cedilla”) in Old Persian. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this primary place of articulation of a Proto-Indo-European consonant that changed into sibilants at the beginning of words meaning “100” in the satem (“SAH-tem”) languages.
ANSWER: velum [or velar consonants; accept palatal velars or palatovelars; prompt on dorsal consonants]
[10e] The term satem comes from this language that, along with Old Persian, belongs to the Old Iranian subfamily. This is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism.
ANSWER: Avestan [accept Old or Young Avestan]
[10h] Indo-Iranian languages exhibit this sound change law, which often interacts with Grassmann’s Law. Under this law, obstruents gain the voicing and aspiration of a directly prior obstruent.
ANSWER: Bartholomae’s Law [accept the Buddha Rule]
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HeardPPBE %M %H %
1610.0088%13%0%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaPittsburgh010010E
BrownWaterloo010010E
Chicago AToronto A010010E
Columbia AMaryland A010010E
Columbia BJohns Hopkins010010E
CornellUCF1010020ME
Illinois AMIT010010E
IndianaNYU A010010E
MichiganStanford B010010E
NYU BRutgers0000
Ohio StateVirginia0000
Penn StateBruin010010E
UC Berkeley AHarvard1010020ME
UC Berkeley BNorthwestern A010010E
UCLAToronto B010010E
Virginia TechStanford A010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓1610.0088%13%0%