Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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guttural

/ˈɡʌtəɹəl/ adjective, noun

Forms gutturals

  1. adjective (medicine, anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat. “guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection”
  2. adjective (phonetics) Having a place of articulation towards the back of the mouth; in modern use, uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal; in earlier or non-technical use, also including velar.
  3. adjective Sounding harsh and throaty. “Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.”
  4. noun A harsh and throaty spoken sound

Synonyms

guttural consonant pharyngeal pharyngeal consonant croaky

Etymology

From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.
  2. noun A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.

Etymology [L. guttur throat: cf. F. gutural.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “guttural”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “guttural” (best matches first).

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