gutturalism
English
Etymology
guttural + -ism
Noun
gutturalism (usually uncountable, plural gutturalisms)
- The quality of being guttural.
- 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
- to reassert the languishing gutturalism of h and (we may add) of r.
- 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
References
gutturalism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913