Proto-Indo-European Roots

Root/Stem:	*k'm.tom
Meaning:	hundred
Cognates:
Hellenic	Greek he-katon 'hundred'
Italic	Latin centum 'hundred'
Celtic	Common Celtic *[email protected] 'hundred' >  Gaulish cantam, Welsh cant 'hundred', Old Irish cét, Cornish cans, Breton kant, Irish céad, Scottish ceud 'hundred'
Indic	Sanskrit çatam 'hundred'
Iranian	Avestan sat@m 'hundred'
Tocharian	Tocharian A ka"nt, B kante 'hundred'
Balkan	Albanian një-qind 'hundred'
Germanic	Common Germanic *humdan 'hundred' >  Gothic hund, Old Norse hundrað, Old English hundred
Baltic	Lithuanian šimtas 'hundred', Sudovian simtan
Slavic	Common Slavic *süto 'hundred' >  Russian & Polish & Czech & Slovene & Bulgarian & Sorbian sto
Notes:	Linguists suggested that originally the root was *dkm.tom as a derivative from *dekm.t 'ten'. Due to the stress peculiarities the initial consonant was dropped.  This very stem has been widely used as the main evidence of the division of all Indo-European languages into 'centum' and 'satem' languages, for their different reflections of the Indo-European palatals.