gutturize

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English

Etymology

From Latin guttur (throat) +‎ -ize.

Verb

gutturize (third-person singular simple present gutturizes, present participle gutturizing, simple past and past participle gutturized)

  1. (transitive) To make (a sound) in the throat; to gutturalize.
    • July 7, 1832, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Greek - dual, neuter plural, and verb singular - theta
      How particularly fine the hard theta is in an English termination, as in that grand word — Death — for which the Germans gutturize a sound that puts you in mind of nothing but a loathsome toad.