| 单词 | throat letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthroat letter throat letter n. now rare a guttural consonant or other speech sound; cf. guttural adj. 2. 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 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 55 The Cornish is more easie to bee pronounced, and not so vnpleasing in sound, with throat letters, as the Welsh. 1847 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1848) 3 116 A similar interchange between lip and throat letters. 1908 Westm. Rev. Mar. 328 In the primitive language from which English as well as Latin and Greek are derived, the first letter of ‘hand’ was not an aspirate but a guttural or throat-letter. 2001 S. I. Sara in C. W. Kreidler Phonol. ii. 22 This is a feature that distinguishes a certain group of letters from the throat letters. < as lemmas |
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