Other forms: throats
The throat is the inside front of your neck. A sore throat, clear your throat, down your throat.
It carries both the food pipe and the airway, which is why swallowing and breathing have to take turns and why choking is possible at all. A sore throat is among the commonest complaints there is, and most are viral. Note ram it down somebody's throat; at each other's throats; and a frog in your throat, meaning temporary hoarseness.
1nounthroatThe inside front of your neck.
“The fish bone got stuck in his throat.”
throat is a body part.
Old English throte comes from a Germanic root probably meaning to swell. Dutch strot and German Drossel are relatives, and throttle is the same word with a small ending.
Proto-Indo-European
*trud- — to swell, become stiff
Proto-Germanic
*þrutō — throat
Proto-West Germanic
*þrotu
Old English
þrote
Middle English
throte
English, today
throat
Built from
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic þrotu, from Proto-Germanic þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA