单词 | guttural |
释义 | gutturaladj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to the throat. guttural artery, the same as thyroid artery. guttural canal, guttural duct, the Eustachian tube. guttural cartilage, the arytenoid cartilage. guttural fossa, ‘the central portion of the middle division in the external base of the skull’ (Cassell). guttural glands, the same as pharyngeal glands. guttural hernia = goitre n. guttural pouch, one of ‘two large air-sacs lying side by side in the median plane of the pharynx of the horse and allied animals’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1886). ΚΠ 1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 68 The gutturall eating and drinking of the body and bloud of Christ. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xxxiv. 142 It no more open'd its guttural Trap-door. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. ii. 354 Cephalick and Guttural Distempers. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 315 A dry and obstinate cough, which we may call guttural, because the patient feels more pain in the throat during his cough, than in any other part. 1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 77 The first, or Sphenoidal Edge..is divided into two laminæ, which enter into the grooves on the guttural suface of the sphenoid bone. 1838–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 550/1 The guttural orifice of the Eustachian tube. 1872 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. iii. 131 Sometimes, as in the Crocodile and Great Ant Eater, this guttural part of the basis cranii is nearly concealed by the immense extension of the palate. 2. Of sounds or utterance: produced in the throat.By non-phoneticians any mode of pronunciation which is harsh or grating in effect is often supposed to be ‘guttural’; with this notion the designation is popularly applied by English-speakers to the German ch, but not to k or g, though technically it belongs equally to them. As a technical term of phonetics, the word was first used to denote the Hebrew spirant consonants ע ,ח ,ה ,א; it is now commonly applied (inaccurately, if its etymological sense be regarded) to the sounds formed by the back of the tongue and the palate, as /k//ɡ//x//ɣ//ŋ/). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [adjective] throated1530 guttural1594 jugulary1626 gutturine1692 oesophagal1778 oesophageal1786 throatal1847 oesophagiac1858 oesophagean1882 perioesophageal1890 tracheo-œsophageal1897 oesophagogastric1954 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > guttural or faucal guttural1594 throaty1647 throateral1664 faucial1807 throatal1847 faucal1864 gutturalized1877 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 87 The Hebrewes name their letters, some gutturall, because they are pronounced more in the throat: others, dentall, because a man cannot wel pronounce them without the teeth. c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. vii. §8 A labial letter can not symboliz a guttural syllab. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell x. 136 A gutturall pronunciation is an infallible badge of an ancient language. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. xi. 364 The Vowel (y) is wholly Guttural, being an emission of the breath from the throat, without any particular motion of the tongue or lips. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. 318 That guttural pronunciation, so disagreeable in the Florentines. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 31 Their language is extremely guttural. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 19 The deep guttural sounds of the speaker were scarcely intelligible to the newly-waked..listener. 1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. iii. 191 The guttural nasal seems to have been the regular pronunciation of ng in English. 1898 J. Caird Univ. Addr. 349 An articulation thick and guttural. B. n. A guttural sound; occasionally, guttural utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [noun] > guttural or faucal throat letter1602 guttural1708 throat clutch1881 faucal1883 1708 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 2) ii. 165 The first letter being such a guttural as could not well be pronounced by the Greeks. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 211 His Speech was..all Gutturals. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iii. 56 Giving each guttural the true Anglo-Saxon enunciation. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 133 Our [Welsh] language being full of harsh consonants and gutturals. 1860 C. M. Yonge Cameos lx, in Monthly Packet Sept. 231 The Portuguese..despise the Spanish gutturals as Moorish abominations. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 May 2/1 Occasionally the choir would cease their singing, and in deep guttural a black-bearded priest would chant some verses. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 29 The rabble of Cologne..grumbling out their grating gutturals. Derivatives ˈgutturalness n. gutturality. ΚΠ 1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1594 |
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