gutturize

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.