guttural
English
Etymology
From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
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
- ^ R. L. Trask A Dictionary of Phonetics (Routledge 1996) p. 164
Noun
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
harsh and throaty spoken sound
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin gutturālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
guttural (feminine gutturale, masculine plural gutturaux, feminine plural gutturales)
- guttural (of a consonant)
- (relational) throat; guttural
Further reading
- “guttural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
guttural (strong nominative masculine singular gutturaler, comparative gutturaler, superlative am gutturalsten)
Declension
Positive forms of guttural
Comparative forms of guttural
Superlative forms of guttural
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