English
guttural
Guttural comes from Latin guttur ‘throat’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttur‘throat’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900gutturālis
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600guttural
- Englishearliest quotation 1899same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEguttur‘throat’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900gutturālis
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600guttural
- Englishearliest quotation 1899same form
Earliest quotation: 1899, Stanley Waterloo: “He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gew- ‘to bend, curve’
cap, cop, cock, cod, cub, giro, kiosk, gyrus, kibble, cudgel, gyre, 11 more
Today it means
adj Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin guttur / guttural