guttural

English

Etymology

From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (throat) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʌtəɹəl/
    • (US) IPA(key): [ˈɡʌɾɚɫ̩]
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌtəɹəl

Adjective

guttural (comparative more guttural, superlative most guttural)

  1. 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.
  2. (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]
  3. (medicine, anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.
    guttural duct of the ear;   guttural pouch infection

Translations

References

  1. R. L. Trask A Dictionary of Phonetics (Routledge 1996) p. 164

Noun

guttural (plural gutturals)

  1. A harsh and throaty spoken sound
    • 1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf's Long Howl:
      He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.
    • 1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money:
      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:
      "Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.

Translations

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin gutturālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡy.ty.ʁal/

Adjective

guttural (feminine gutturale, masculine plural gutturaux, feminine plural gutturales)

  1. guttural (of a consonant)
  2. (relational) throat; guttural

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʊtuˈʁaːl/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

guttural (strong nominative masculine singular gutturaler, comparative gutturaler, superlative am gutturalsten)

  1. guttural

Declension

Further reading

  • guttural” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • guttural” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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