guttural
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
guttural (comparative more guttural, superlative most guttural)
- Sounding harsh and throaty.
- Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
- (phonetics) having a place of articulation towards the back of the mouth; in modern use, uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal; in earlier or non-technical use, also including velar.[1]
- (medicine, anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.
- guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection
Translations edit
sounding harsh and throaty
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phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth
medicine, anatomy: of, relating to, or connected to the throat
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References edit
- ^ R. L. Trask A Dictionary of Phonetics (Routledge 1996) p. 164
Noun edit
guttural (plural gutturals)
- A harsh and throaty spoken sound
- 1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf's Long Howl[1]:
- He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.
- 1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money[2]:
- He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals.
- 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan[3]:
- "Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.
Translations edit
harsh and throaty spoken sound
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French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin gutturālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
guttural (feminine gutturale, masculine plural gutturaux, feminine plural gutturales)
- guttural (of a consonant)
- (relational) throat; guttural
Further reading edit
- “guttural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
guttural (strong nominative masculine singular gutturaler, comparative gutturaler, superlative am gutturalsten)
Declension edit
Positive forms of guttural
Comparative forms of guttural
Superlative forms of guttural
Further reading edit
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