guttural

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌtəɹəl/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʌɾɚɫ̩]

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• Rhymes: -ʌtəɹəl

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

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.

Learned borrowing from New Latin gutturālis.

• IPA^(key): /ɡy.ty.ʁal/

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

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

• “guttural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʊtuˈʁaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

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

1. guttural

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