gutturalness

Variant of guttural

adjective

  1. of the throat
    1. loosely produced in the throat; harsh, rasping, etc.: said of sounds
    2. characterized by such sounds: a guttural language
  2. articulated with the back of the tongue close to or touching the soft palate, as the (g) in gum; velar

Origin: L guttur, throat < IE *gut-, *gutr, throat < base *gēu-, to curve > cod

noun

  1. a sound produced in this way
  2. a symbol representing such a sound

Related Forms:

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
link/cite print suggestion box