garganta

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (feminine) throat
2. (feminine) gullet
3. (feminine) gorge

Geslag

♀️ Vroulik

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ɡaɾˈɣantɐ]

Etimologie (Engels)

From Old Galician-Portuguese garganta; from a substrate language *gʷr̥h₃gn̥t- (“throat”), cognate with Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck, throat”) and English craw (from Proto-Germanic *k(w)ragan(þ)-), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to shallow”). Alternatively, onomatopoeic.