guttural








adjective

  1. of or relating to the throat.
  2. harsh; throaty.
  3. Phonetics. pertaining to or characterized by a sound articulated in the back of the mouth, as the non-English velar fricative sound [kh] /x/.

noun

  1. a guttural sound.

adjective

  1. anatomy of or relating to the throat
  2. phonetics pronounced in the throat or the back of the mouth; velar or uvular
  3. raucous

noun

  1. phonetics a guttural consonant
adj.

“pertaining to the throat,” 1590s, from Middle French guttural, from Latin guttur “throat, gullet” (see bowel). The noun, in linguistics, is from 1690s.

adj.

  1. Of or relating to the throat.
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